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Implementing Low Cost Digital Libraries for Rural Communities by Re-functioning Obsolescent Television Sets: The Offline-pedia Project Cover

Implementing Low Cost Digital Libraries for Rural Communities by Re-functioning Obsolescent Television Sets: The Offline-pedia Project

Open Access
|Oct 2019

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Figure 1

The first prototype of the rural digital library Offline-pedia. Photo by the authors.

Figure 2

The Offline-pedia box during the 3D modelling phase (left), and once laser cut from recycled wood and ready to be assembled (right). Photos by the authors.

Figure 3

The main menu of Offline-pedia, from which the collections can be accessed (above), and an example of how e-books are visualized on screen (below). Photos by the authors.

Figure 4

Volunteers illustrating the functioning of Offline-pedia to the rural community of Cajas, located in the Ecuadorian province of Imbabura (above), and to the students of the community of “La Concepción,” in the Ecuadorian province of Carchi (below). Photo by the authors.

Language: English
Page range: 123 - 139
Published on: Oct 27, 2019
Published by: Sound & Vision
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2019 Sergio Minniti, Joshua Salazar, Jorge Vega, published by Sound & Vision
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.