adlsngreenstone -- Discussion list for the African Digital Library Support Network

About adlsngreenstone	English (USA)
This is a discussion list for the African Digital Library Support Network. The vision of ADLSN is to be "a leading network in development of digital content in Africa" and it's mission is to "facilitate access to local digital content in Africa by means of open source software". The Support Network is an open community of practitioners and policy makers and has a number of Centres throughout Africa that can be called upon both nationally and regionally. ADLSN is an eIFL-FOSS supported activity and you can find find further information here: http://adlsn.org On the discussion list African practical experience is shared and support given in creating and giving access to local digital content. The focus is on open source software with emphasis on Greenstone but also paying attention to other open-source access solutions like DSpace, Drupal and bridges between these. The messages to this list are archived. They are publicly accessible. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the adlsngreenstone Archives.
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