The Digital Doorway

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The Digital Doorway -----------------             
     This is a very robust 4-terminal computer
system that is put into poor communities around
South Africa to provide a means for people in
that community to teach themselves basic computer
skills. Funding is provided by the Department
of Science and Technology
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• Most of the software and content on Digital
  Doorways is open source.
• There are currently 24 Digital Doorway sites in
  South Africa running Mandrake Linux.
• This year we are installing a further 100
  3-terminal Digital Doorways, running Xubuntu
  Linux.
• Content on the Digital Doorway includes
• Open Office
• Drawing programs
• Educational Games
• Educational Videos
• Health Information
• Science Experiments
• Wikipedia
• Gutenberg Books
• And lots more.

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A Digital Doorway consists of 1 server, 2 fat
clients, and 1 Mindset satellite receiver.
Future DD's will be connected to a local MESH
network
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One of the many pieces of feedback received
Hi. I'm very excited to have this digital
doorway installed in my community, since this is
a step forward to computer literacy and science.
This is going to reduce the rate of children in
conflict with the law since they will be busy
experimenting educationally. I would like to see
children in this rural community gaining
confidence,when they go to higher learning
institutions. I'm using the doorway to study and
research. I'm an Abet facilitator and hope that
this is going to help at acquiring learner
material. P.L. Feb 2007
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Digital Doorway Webpage www.digitaldoorway.org.za