[governance] UNDP-APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks

[christine]

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UNDP-APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks

http://www.apdip.net/news/wikibooks 

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15 e-Primers are now available on Wikibooks for all to use and update.

UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) realizes
how fast a published book gets out-of-date, especially in the fast-moving
field of information and communications technology for development (ICT4D).
UNDP-APDIP has therefore donated 15 of its e-Primers to Wikibooks for free
use and update (see list below).

Nine of the e-Primers are part of UNDP-APDIP's "e-Primers for the
Information Economy, Society and Polity" series that detail the concepts,
issues and trends surrounding different aspects of ICT4D, including
e-commerce, education, e-government, Internet governance, legal and
regulatory issues, and ICT for poverty reduction. 

Six of the e-Primers are part of the "e-Primers on Free/Open Source Software
(FOSS)" series that introduce various aspects of FOSS, including education,
government policy, licensing, localization and open standards. The FOSS
series of e-Primers is developed by the International Open Source Network
(http://www.iosn.net), an initiative of UNDP-APDIP supported by the
International Development Research Centre of Canada.

Wikibooks is our chosen platform because it facilitates collaboration. Every
day, volunteers are improving Wikibooks, making many changes, writing,
updating, and correcting books. Wikibooks maintains quality control and has
policies and guidelines that users need to follow. Wikibooks are also
available for all to freely distribute and reproduce as covered by the GNU
Free Documentation License.

We would like to invite you to visit the Wikibooks and contribute your
knowledge and experiences in the relevant ICT4D topics. Forthcoming APDIP
e-Primers on network infrastructure and security, open content and other
topics will all automatically be donated to Wikibooks.

The original published e-Primers will remain in
http://www.apdip.net/elibrary#iesp (and, in the case of the e-Primers on
FOSS, at http://www.iosn.net/publications/foss-primers), and the version in
Wikibook will be linked to these. This way any user will be able to see the
original version alongside the (modified) Wikibook version.


E-PRIMERS FOR THE INFORMATION ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND POLITY
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:ICT4D_Books 

1. The Information Age
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Information_Age 

2. Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Information Economy
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Legal_and_Regulatory_Issues_in_the_Information_
Economy 

3. Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nets,_Webs_and_the_Information_Infrastructure 

4. Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Information_and_Communication_Technologies_for_
Poverty_Alleviation
 
5. Internet Governance
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Internet_Governance 

6. e-Government
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-government 

7. e-Commerce and e-Business
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/E-Commerce_and_E-Business 

8. ICT in Education
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ICT_in_Education 

9. Genes, Technology and Policy
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Genes,_Technology_and_Policy 


E-PRIMERS ON FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:FOSS_Books 

10. Free/Open Source Software: A General Introduction
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_A_General_Introduction 

11. Free/Open Source Software: Education
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education 

12. Free/Open Source Software: Government Policy
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Government_Policy 

13. Free/Open Source Software: Licensing
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Licensing 

14. Free/Open Source Software: Localization
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Localization 

15. Free/Open Source Software: Open Standards
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards 




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