CD-ROM Publications
KILA has been focusing on creating/collecting, digital documents, organising them as searchable archives and distributing them as digital collections / CD-ROM libraries in subject areas closely related to decentralisation, aimed at 'information empowerment' of the constituency of people consisting of thinkers, advocates, activists and practitioners of decentralisation. The two cd-rom publications prominent among them are:-
- A cd-rom entitled E-Documents on Decentralisation in Kerala consisting of essential digital documents relating to Kerala decentralization and
- Another cd-rom archive entitled CD-ROM Library on Local Governance consisting of around 1200 pieces of digital documents collected from World Wide Web or elsewhere
More than two dozen CD-ROM libraries containing around 5000 digital documents are distributed as part of the library services on no-profit basis. Most prominent among them is Community Development Library containing 1785 documents of around 1.6 lakh pages. Maual on Digital Document Archiivng is a publication of KILA intended to promote the concept of digital document archiving using free software tools promoted by Unesco.
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