Open Knowledge Network
For energy-saving cooking tips for refugees, advice about HIV/AIDs, current market prices, jobs, ideas for motivating African kids to read, requests for farming tools, aromatherapy cures for winter bugs and info on what to do with beeswax, plus much more the Open Knowledge Network is the place to go. And its available in various languages like Kiswahili, Tamil, Wolof, Hindi and Ndebele.
For example: Rural volunteer reporters in Pondicherry, India, are using OKN to produce around 10 news stories a day. Dr. R Thiagarajane, the content coordinator at the local network partner MSSRF, collects and edits them. Then, with the help of the community, he turns the stories into a radio programme in Tamil that goes live to hundreds of villages in and around Pondicherry. And, OKN's mobile phone project Content to Change Lives. OKN builds upon existing local networks of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Its currently active in Southern, East and West Africa with projects in Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Uganda and Zimbabwe; and in south and north India as well as Nepal and Sri Lanka. In Latin America OKN is networking with potential project partners in Peru and Brazil. Since April 2005, OKN Africa is governed by its members. In January 2005, we joined forces with the National Informatics Centre in India and UNESCO to develop a new community software tool, Open eNRICH, which is being installed at OKN partners in early 2006. OKN is funded by Department of International Development and Industry Canada, and has had some support from Sun Microsystems. OKN team 
Britt, Ken, Pete, Peter and Tori. As well as Bornwell Mwewa from OneWorld Africa and T N Anuradha and Basheerhamad Shadrach from OneWorld South Asia
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