News Articles & Press Releases
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July, 2007
"Casting a Wider Net: Improving Access to Medical Literature in Developing Countries" The Journal of Mayo Clinic Proceedings
June 3, 2007
"Disk project gives Africans Net Substitute" The Denver Post
Spring 2007
"Thinking INSIDE the box: UI project addresses poverty of information worldwide" Spectator
April 27, 2007
"Building a Bridge with Hard Drives" Technology Horizons
April 2007
"Appropriate Information-Communications Technologies for Developing Countries" WHO
March, 2007
"WiderNet Digital Library for African Universities via Satellite" DOT-Comments e-newsletter
December 1, 2006
"Online Materials Broadening Global Access to Education" USInfo
November 6, 2006
"Bridging the Digital Divide" FYI
October 24, 2006
"UI aiding in 'Africanizing' the Internet" The Daily Iowan
October 19, 2006
"Bringing the Internet to Schools in Africa" Chicago Public Radio
October 16, 2006
"Building Digital Bridges to Africa" Satisfaction Magazine
June 22, 2006
"Fulbright Scholars Discuss Time in Africa" NPR Talk of the Nation
May 15, 2006
"Casting a Wide Net" The Chronicle of Higher Education - The Wired Campus
"Heard in the Alley--New Way To Go To School" Digital Imaging News
May 11, 2006
"Locals Strive to Widen the Internet Globally" The Daily Iowan
May 8, 2006
"Tap Gyan from eGranary" Business Line, Financial Daily from The Hindu group of publications
March 27, 2006
"India: eGranary Helps Countries Build Digital Libraries" OWL Institute: Open Education Research and Development
March 20, 2006
"Digital Libraries: Helping Bridge the Digital Divide in Developing Countries"--(eGranary) Web presentation by Anna Jubilo at University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archives and Information Studies
March 18, 2006
“Library Project for Developing Countries Wins Grant" The Gazette
March 17, 2006
"Workshop on e-granary conducted" The Hindu --Online edition of India's National Newspaper
March 16, 2006
"New Resources to Bridge Digital Divide -- eGranary Provides Access to Millions of Documents" The Hindu - Online edition of India's National Newspaper
February 22, 2006
"Textbook Revolution Content Included in the eGranary" Textbook Revolution.org
December 2005
"Internet in a Box": Augmenting Bandwidth with the eGranary Digital Library" Africa Today - Special Issue: African Electronic Publishing
December 30, 2005
"The eGranary Digital Library" Nithinkamath.info
December 1, 2005
"eGranary: WiderNet" Timbuktu Chronicles
November, 2005
"Internet In A Box: The eGranary Digital Library Serves Scholars Lacking Internet Bandwidth" New Review of Information Networking
November 17, 2005
Feature on WiderNet Project and eGranary Digital Library at World Information Summit in Tunisia and global initiatives (Reporter, Steve Nicoles), KCRG-TV (ABC)
"Free Online 'Open Content' Initiatives Announced" Scoop-Independent News
November 16, 2005
"Open Content Initiatives Announced At World Summit In Tunisia" The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
November 12, 2005
"Project Seeks to Link the World..." Radio Iowa broadcast
November 8, 2005
"Organizations Partner To Aid African Schools" University of Iowa News Release
November 4, 2005
"Kirkwood Students Take Apart Computers at WiderNet Project" University of Iowa News Release
October 17, 2005
"A Pace-Setter at 30" Newswatch Newsmagazine
October 11, 2005
"EarlyChurch.org.uk Becomes Part of the EGranary Project" EarlyChurch.Org
September 15, 2005
"Committee Including UI's Merrill Calls For Urgency In Cultural Diplomacy" University of Iowa News Release
September, 2005
"Cultural Diplomacy The Linchpin of Public Diplomacy" Report of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy, U. S. Department of State
August 5, 2005
"U-of-I Project Aims to Get African Universities Online" Radio Iowa broadcast
August 3, 2005
"UI WiderNet Project Wins $225,000 Grant From Hewlett Foundation" University of Iowa News Release
July 25, 2005
"Scientific Information for African Universities" AAU e-Courier
July 22, 2005
"Food For Thought: Localized Content Aids Disconnected Africa" EContent Digital Content Strategies and Resources
June 11, 2005
"Report on the eGranary Digital Library at the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria" Federal Polytechnic Nekede-Owerri-Imo State, Nigeria
June 2005
"A New Way of Delivering the World's Knowledge To Those Most in Need--eGranary" Internet Resources Newsletter
"News From The Field" Association of College and Research Libraries
May 20, 2005
"50th eGranary Digital Library Installed in Haiti" Intranets Today
May 9, 2005
"eGranary Library in Haiti" Serials-eNews
May 3, 2005
"eGranary Digital Library" Politics Blog--Democratic Divide
May 2, 2005
"eGranary" Moontide
March 2005
"Bandwidth and Copyright: Barriers to Knowledge in Africa?" Carnegie Reporter
"Virtual Library Model:A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York" Carnegie Reporter
February 27, 2005
"UI Project Plants Seeds of Internet in Developing Nations" The Gazette
January 18, 2005
"New Use for Old Hardware" The Gazette
December 19, 2004
