Africa is bringing African information to stand alone computers, local networks, mobile devices and the global web.
The African Digital Library Support Network is the community of practitioners, managers, small businesses and strategic thinkers that plan, implement and sustain the necessary digitisation and IT.
Information comes from many different African sources. Often in printed form.
Ongoing work in the Network shows access to information coming from archives, literature and history, research, dissertations and theses, teaching, newspapers, the health sector and government.
The IT choice is free and open source software.
Most experience in the Network is with Greenstone as low barrier solution for creating digital libraries and realising institutional repository access. Other experience is for example with SubjectsPlus and DSpace.
The Network started life in 2007 as Southern African Greenstone Support Network.
