The document discusses access to knowledge in impoverished rural areas. It talks about the missions of Google and Wikimedia Foundation to organize and make the world's information universally accessible. It then discusses the problem of illiteracy and lack of access to knowledge in rural areas. It outlines research and development as well as program implementation by Literacy Bridge to address this issue using technologies like talking books to provide affordable access to literacy tools and knowledge through audio devices in infrastructure-poor regions.
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1. Access to Knowledge in Impoverished Rural Areas Cliff Schmidt Literacy Bridge Executive Director www.literacybridge.org
2. Google : to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful . Wikimedia Foundation: to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational contentand to disseminate it effectively and globally .
45. The advent of universally accessible information and knowledgelow-cost hardwareall present a real opportunity to developing countries to employ ICT to lift the quality of education and make it universally accessible. The Talking Book, for example, uses a low-cost audio device to provide affordable access to literacy learning tools and relevant locally created knowledge in regions with the least infrastructure.
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