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Welcome to CD3WD - CD 3rd World - and TWI - Third World Information
Simple - just
Download 680 Megabytes to burn a CD for offline distribution - http://gnuveau.net:81/cd.iso
OR
Browse at
http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
You dont need to read any further.....
Update - 26 December 2005
CD3WD is a project to give high quality technical development information to the end user in the 3rd world,
and to international and local NGO's and individuals who are interested in Practical Action
and an end to hot air and the
cynical exploitation of the poor and needy by the rich and verbose.
November 30 2005 we fixed all
the link problems on our website and issued a new CD with
the same content, but one which will work with Linux, Mac etc.. (the original CD always worked perfectly with Windows).
In the last 16 months we have achieved an excellent 30,000 CD downloads of 660 megabytes each;
and an average of 8,000 webpage views per day; both figures are climbing....
The downloads alone are equivalent to the distribution of 25 million books and booklets
on practical 3rd world development technical information.
We are making provision for a rapid expansion
of these figures...
We feel that at the moment, the continued dissemination of CD3WD in its existing form with its existing content is our
top priority - we want every computer in the 3rd world to have CD3WD installed, including those projected in MIT's
OLPC (one laptop per child) Green Machine US$ 100 Laptop Project. Of course if and when content providers come to us with
good additional content we will incorporate and reissue, but many content providers (such as Practical Action/ ITDG)
have zero interest in the digitalisation of their material - they prefer to maximise their profits and jobs rather than
maximise the benefit to mankind.
Name and Shame
The following organisations have been approached to utilise and/or to promote (not to fund!) CD3WD and have shown complete disinterest:
Christian Aid UK, EWB (Engineers without Borders) UK and EWB Canada, Save the Children UK (SCF),
World Vision UK, World Vision Zimbabwe,
CARE Zimbabwe, VSO UK, ActionAid UK, ComputerAid UK, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Rwanda, DED Rwanda, DFID Rwanda, ITDG Publications UK,
ITDG/Practical Action UK.
We will add to and remove from this list as things develop...
Funding
We run literally on a zero budget - the established players in the Aid and Development Business
have no interest in our product. Anyone with ideas, time or money please
contact
us....
STOP PRESS! 14 August 2004
You can now DOWNLOAD the complete latest version (version 3.7) of the CD3WD CD at
http://gnuveau.net:81/cd.iso
- that will be about 680 meg and will take 34 hours at 56k (normal good dialup line),
17 hours at 125k (some ISDN lines), probably 4 hours at 500k (some broadband and cable modem lines)
; having downloaded the CD Image, you can burn one or one million CD's...;
these CD's can then be airmailed or otherwise distributed to suitable recipients in the 3rd world;
from each CD, installation can be easily done on 10's, 100's or 1000's of PC's. NB - please use only
the SAVE option on the download screen which appears when you click on the above link.
Alternatively, BROWSE most of the system (912 Megabytes, 68000 files)
at
http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM -
or Local Directory Page -
Note some links on that website version are missing or bad, but the downloaded product itself and CD installations
run perfectly under all windows and probably all linux
This latest version of the CD3WD can no longer be browsed direct from the CD itself - the copying process with so many files was just too error-prone, and there is now too much material to put on one CD in normal format - so the info
is now compressed and is easy to burn onto CD-R or CD-RW, easy to copy onto hard drive or USB Flash Ram, and easy to install
on hard drive (from a hard drive copy of the installation CD or from the installation CD itself directly).
Note that if the (BROWSING) link as above -
http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
for some reason does not work then
please try alternatively (for browsing - not for downloading)
http://sleekfreak.ath.cx/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM - BROWSING link -
http://gnuveau.net/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM - BROWSING link -
Please note that Sunday 15 August 2004 the above sites were not reachable but today Monday 16 August everything seems
once again fully functional. If you do have any problems then
email
me and let me know...
We hope to open another mirrored website by about 14 September 2004 - will give you
an address on this webpage when opened...
For those of you who do not yet know what CD3WD is - it is the best global collection
of free technical information on 3rd world development in electronic format - all in one easily searchable
location - the best of the best....
An overview of the CD3WD, CD3WD_32, CD3WD_33 etc CD's
A Management overview of the CD3WD Project - dissemination and future direction
A List of the approximately 800 publications on the CD3WD, CD3WD_32, CD3WD_33 etc CD's
A pre-CD technical training paper on Irrigation, which will be available on future CD3WD CD's -
this is also a sample which is fishing for other contributions from yourself and your colleagues....
A List of relevant links to electronic information on websites which complements the
efforts of CD3WD and TWI
A list of disseminators/marketers by country for the
CD3WD CD's - some will be commercial/for-profit, others will be at-cost; if we are lucky
we will also get some free-of-charge in-country distributors... - email us if you are interested in distributing in your country....;
and obviously check out this page to see if you can obtain the CD3WD CD in your country....
An explanation ONLY of 9411 (approx 6500 distinct) documents on technical 3rd world
development - THIRD WORLD INFORMATION (TWI) - for the information searcher.... this is a 9k document only....
An explanation and AND LIST of 9411 (approx 6500 distinct) documents on technical 3rd world
development - THIRD WORLD INFORMATION (TWI) - for the information searcher.... BEWARE that this is a 500k docu.
Try the alternatives below maybe if you have any problems...:
.HTM files
TWI9411.HTM - Complete file - 500k
TWI94111.HTM - 1 of 5 - 100k
TWI94112.HTM - 2 of 5 - 100k
TWI94113.HTM - 3 of 5 - 100k
TWI94114.HTM - 4 of 5 - 100k
TWI94115.HTM - 5 of 5 - 100k
.TXT files
TWI9411.TXT - Complete file - 500k
TWI94111.TXT - 1 of 5 - 100k
TWI94112.TXT - 2 of 5 - 100k
TWI94113.TXT - 3 of 5 - 100k
TWI94114.TXT - 4 of 5 - 100k
TWI94115.TXT - 5 of 5 - 100k
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