November 16, 2007
Software Group Gets Online Textbooks to the Developing World
Started by 2 professors, the Global Text Project uses volunteer writers to keep costs down
Learning is valuable, but in Africa it is more than that: It is prohibitively expensive. In Ethiopia, where the per-capita income is about $100 a year, a single textbook at Addis Ababa University can cost $50.
In order to get more textbooks to students in developing nations, two people are leading an ambitious project to produce and freely distribute 1,000 original titles
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