ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 7.0 for $35 Raspberry Pi 4

[Adam Holt]

Install Internet-in-a-Box 3X Faster on Raspberry Pi 4

For Rural Schools, Libraries and Medical Clinics

When clickbait-driven misinformation puts journalism, human rights (and democracy itself) at risk — where do we turn?

Communities around the planet are taking the future into their own hands — crafting their own purpose-built digital libraries to...

Bring essential / endangered / indigenous knowledge and learning rights to life

Announcing Internet-in-a-Box 7.0 — with offline Wikipedia, offline Khan Academy, RACHEL content packs — and tons more...

• Pick a subset of the Internet Archive Offline from some of the greatest libraries around the world.
• Install an IIAB Map Pack for your favorite continent, with satellite photos across 10 levels of zoom, and natural/human geography visible across 15-to-19 levels of zoom.  (OpenStreetMap vector maps are like Google Maps, but better⁠ for schools especially⁠, as they work offline and avoid the advertising!)
• Involve MediaMaking tools⁠ like Nextcloud 17's offline collaboratives editor (like Google Docs) helping students learn modern/team workflows.
• Explore electronics projects with Node-Red 1.0 flow-based / event-driven visual programming.
• Set up an "offline GitHub" to teach coding-with-a-conscience where there's no Internet, nurturing the next generation of free and open developers!

DIY'ing your own "Library of Alexandria" is that easy — for any local schools, libraries, health clinics and/or family of your choosing.

Simply drag and drop the best of the World Free Knowledge Content Packs, using Internet-in-a-Box installed on any $35 Raspberry Pi 4 computer:

Building your own offline library is now easier than ever

Thanks Everyone for weaving in the (g)local knowledge ecosystems that matter most — both the Internet's crown jewels (Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Khan Academy, etc) AND countless lesser-known environmental / indigenous cultural content vitals.

You can even update to the latest Content Packs, bringing your rural Internet-in-a-Box into the city every semester, using almost any home Internet connection e.g. to download the very latest Wikipedia etc!

Please read about Internet-in-a-Box 7.0's new capabilities making this all possible: IIAB 7.0 Release Notes

And try it out, asking us any questions!

Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 7.0 represents 7+ months of work since IIAB 6.7 — and we're very proud to offer this to you for free!

Thanks to some amazing free/open source work from professional volunteers around the world, who are servicing and learning from the more than 20 countries where IIAB is in use, in partially offline and fully offline environments both.

And...if you're not yet familiar with Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB), watch our videos to get acquainted: http://internet-in-a-box.org

Last but not least, consider our personal INVITATION...

1) The Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) Community Summit will be in Boston November 7-10, in conjunction with Wikipedia North America's http://wikiconference.org at MIT.  To attend, please reply privately to this email, so we can help you make arrangements.  Building on our 2017 http://OFF.NETWORK "med/ucational" content hackathon, we'll demo our new offline versions of https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/ inviting all to do similar, learning how easy it is to now roll your own environmental/indigenous/etc Content Packs!

2) Whether you're on the technology, humanitarian or field implementation side of learning rights, do consider helping us refine the upcoming IIAB 7.1.  Here's a list of just a few of the advances now being considered and worked on, that we'd really love your help architecting and polishing for early 2020!

3) Join any of our Thursday Internet-in-a-Box Live Community Calls (http://minutes.iiab.io) to learn about and contribute to everyone's high-quality free and open knowledge ecosystems — typically held 10AM NYC Time — in alliance with Wikipedia, Kiwix, OpenStreetMap, Kolibri (formerly Khan Academy Lite) and amazing others~