Kennisnet


Kennisnet is a Dutch public organization dedicated to ICT-innovation for primary and secondary education and vocational training. Kennisnet provides educational content and information to teachers, pupils and parents. Kennisnet also stimulates the use of information technology in educational processes by providing technical and practical support for several innovative educational aids. Kennisnet is funded by the Ministry [of Education, Culture and Science |Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science].
Kennisnet provided hosting and bandwidth for fifty Wikimedia Foundation servers from June 2005 to 2009, located at SARA in the Science Park Amsterdam.

Davindi

Davindi was a search engine for searching the open source Kennisnet database. The name is a pun on Leonardo [da Vinci]'s surname and the Dutch word vind which means find in English. It did not crawl the internet, but only gave search results which are vetted by Davindi editors. Apart from text documents, also videos images and sound files could be found. The search engine also gave results from other educational sources such as Kennislink. Davindi gave results from more than 50,000 sources related to primary and secondary education, vocational education and adult education.

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Category:Educational organisations based in the Netherlands