Information Society Watch

May 15, 2007, Tectonic

A new project titled 'EduWiki' aims at having a wide range of information relevant to modern South African families especially focusing on their community needs. The creator of the project, Shaugn Vorster explains that modern South African families do not have the old community frameworks and this project aims to plug this gap by providing community level information. EduWiki will have information that is relevant to and aimed at the various age groups. Early primary school level children, for example, would not need to know the Latin name, genus and sub species. Entries would contain more and more detailed information as the targeted age level increases. The project is looking to build local content through contributors and having entries in native languages and the project uses open source.

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