The service is designed to provide access to knowledge in developing countries.
At a time when Mark Zuckerberg, within the framework of Internet.org, seeks to cover the entire planet with a network, other specialists are thinking about how to provide information to those people who do not have constant access to the Internet.
A solution to this problem is the "Internet in a box", that is, the use of microchips. What kind of device it is and how it works is described in detail on developer site.
The developers of the WiderNet project from the University of North Carolina created the eGranary Pocket Library device: this microchip can be inserted into a laptop, smartphone or tablet and access millions of resources.
Users will be able to use the system through a regular browser, but only offline.
Partners in the creation of the local "Internet" are: Wikipedia, Khan Academy and Project Gutenberg. The process is reduced to copying the content of sites, forming an offline database. A database of almost 32 million documents stored on a 4 TB disk has already been created.
To make this microchip more affordable, it is created in small sizes of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, depending on the goals in each case. Today, eGranary libraries are used by millions of people around the world.
