1. The Digital Doorway ----------------- Mr Kim Gush Meraka Institute, CSIR kgush@csir.co.za

2. A Digital Doorway 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 Key Aspects: ● Provides fundamental ICT training ● Users learn through experimentation ● Minimal outside guidance is provided ● Learners encourage and help each other Concept

3. Timeline 20072008200320042005200620012002 India Hole in the Wall project by Sugata Mitra South African Digital Dioorway Project (Cwili) Migration to Open Source solution 4-Terminal housing introduced Project expanded to 24 sites Xubuntu 331 system developed Project grows, 100+ sites installed Further massification and research

4. Hardware Key Aspects: ● Rugged ● Secure ● Maintainable ● Cooling

5. 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

6. Most of the software and content on Digital Doorways is open source. The operating system is Linux There are currently 24 Digital Doorway sites in South Africa running Mandrake Linux. A further 100+ 3-terminal Digital Doorways are currently being installed, running Xubuntu Linux. Ideal content is both educational and entertaining Content on the Digital Doorway includes: ● Open Office ● Drawing programs ● Educational Games ● Educational Videos ● Health Information ● Science Experiments ● Cached Wikipedia ● Gutenberg Books And lots more. Software

7. File Manager Manages files Web Cam Allows users to see themselves on the Webcam Gcompris Educational suite for childrens Tux Paint Painting program for childrens Tux Maths Maths Game for mental arithmetic Hangman Spelling Game Potato Guy Sticker game Algebra Algebraic Game KPercentage Percentage Game Atomix Make virtual atoms and molecules KmPlot Plot curves and mathematical expressions KTouch Touch Typing KLettres Junior Typing KTurtle Logo Junior Programming Writer Word Processor Calc Spreadsheet Base Database Impress Presentations Draw Vector drawing Math Maths Editor Inkscape Calligraphy Freemind Mindmap Editor Scribus Desktop Publishing Gimp Image Editor Firefox Web Browser Games Freecell Solitaire, Blackjack, Aisleriot Solitaire, Mahjongg, Klickety, Robots, SameGame, Glotski, Gnibbles, Ktron, Gnometris, Five or More, Four­in­a­row, Ksmiletris, Kasteroids, Kbattleship Celestia Solar System Learn about the solar system Journey To The PlanetsLearn about the planets Kalzium Periodic Table XBall Games Fractals Fractal Generator Wikipedia Full Open Content Encyclopaedia – text only Wkipedia Lite Open Content Encyclopaedia Subset – with pictures Mindset Content Educational Content and Videos from Mindset Network Agriculture A selection of articles on Agriculture Audio books Audio books of a selection of popular classics Computers Resources on programming and Linux development Crafts Crafts including cooking, knitting etc Fun Bird alphabet, Movies and Hand Shadows Health & Safety Electricity, HIV, Healthy Babies Literature Literature on Philosophy and other topics Real World How to find work, the Constitution, Governance etc Science Applied Maths, Electronics, Physics, NASA videos etc

8. Connected Community

9. Social Interaction

10. time effectiveness Excitement / novelty installation familiarity (No new content) Anger / Disappointment misconceptions Installation Begin Installation End Hardware Failure No HW maintenance / No Community Ownership Ineffective System

11. Effective System time misconceptions Excitement / Novelty familiarity Experience Competence Experience Experience / Peer learning Ongoing HW maintenance / Community Ownership New content introduced Installation Begin Installation End New content introduced effectiveness

12. Widescale computer illiteracyDigital Doorways introducedThese areas become information hubsICT knowledge propagates outwardsFully developed and sustainable information society

13. 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 One of the many pieces of feedback received: Feedback (Works by David Tony Mokomane) Art created on the Digital Doorway using Tux Paint: Online Feedback Mechanism Users can provide feedback, suggestion, requests etc.

14. Digital Doorway Webpage http://www.digitaldoorway.org.za