APDIP Donates 15 e-Primers to Wikibooks

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

Nine of the e-Primers are part of 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/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

10. Gender and ICT
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gender_and_ICT

e-Primers on Free/Open Source Software
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:FOSS_Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. Free/Open Source Software: Networking Infrastructure and Security
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS:_Network_Infrastructure_and_Security

18. Free/Open Source Software: Open Content
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Content

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