More than 110 million people in Nigeria are still not connected to the internet largely because of poor infrastructure and a lack of fiber and mobile networks make it expensive and unreliable.

But now an ambitious project aims to give millions of students in the country access to a vast library of digital content.

But rather than depending on an internet connection to access it, the project has developed the resource for offline viewing.

The eGranary Digital Library - also known as The Internet in a Box - has been developed by a US-based non-profit called the WiderNet Project.[...]


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