A torrent is a way of downloading large files which spreads the load over many servers and PC's.
There are several bit torrents of cd3wd available to download - find at Google Search for cd3wd Torrents, but be careful since some of the torrents available may refer to
older (pre- 2007/02) versions which dont have the full 13 gigabytes of content. Anyone who wants their torrent specifically listed here please email me
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4459710/CD3WD_-_Helping_the_3rd_World_to_help_itself.4459710.TPB.torrent is one which is based in Norway and have asked me to put
up this link...
Mailing Request Webpage People who dont have the bandwidth to download cd3wd themselves - check out this page for commercial or at-cost providers who can snail-mail or airmail DVD or CD...
Cd3wd is a free but high quality collection of practical How-To Technical Development Information - helping the 3rd world to help itself.
There are 4000 titles, totalling 13 gigabytes.
We host cd3wd free online and we also - very importantly - make it available for free download and onward dissemination via flash ram,
CD, DVD, external hard drive etc..
The International Community and International and local NGO's for some strange reason have zero or even negative interest in cd3wd -
maybe they can see the writing on the wall - a dynamic and self-sufficient 3rd world which has democratically and peacefully shaken off its
pro-Western and its anti-Western charlatan dictator-presidents will have little or no need for NGO's. This lack of interest and hostility
is however regrettable, since their involvement could hasten their own departure.
Update 2008/09 - we are currently getting downloads of about 40 gigabytes per day, and
browsing rates of about 6,000 web page hits per day. I am planning that the complete
collection will be browseable from this website before 2009/03 (currently big files are
available from this site only offline after downloading) - that will not be any advantage
for 3rd world users but may help developed-country users and may help the expansion and
awareness of the cd3wd Project. We (the Royal We) are still operating despite the total indifference
and occasional hostility of the International Community - and we will continue to
operate although the Global Aid and Development Community is firmly nailing its true colours
to the mast. Note that cd3wd is only one of several projects which is beneficial to
3rd world development - without meaningful political change in most 3rd world countries
then little real benefit to the poor and the oppressed is possible. Check out
cd3wd's sister project - an Unfraudable Voting
System for the 3rd world
A very very big thanks to
John Furze of Holme, Ebeltoft near Aarhus in Denmark - on behalf of friends and colleagues of his in Denmark and many other countries - who donated
a huge quantity of content in November 2006 which we published on cd3wd in early 2007 and which doubled cd3wd from about 2000 to about 4000 titles, and took us from 2 Gigabytes to about 13 Gigabytes
It would be nice to have complete copies of cd3wd at major airport hubs and capital city cybercafes throughout the 3rd world - volunteers sought - and of course list the installations here on this page..... These copies could be on 16 Gb USB Flash Drives or on PC's or on external hard drives... The Flash Drives could be simply for copying over from, or could be for sale - probably at US$ 70-00 each approximately... Maybe we start with Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Abijan and Dubai Airports?... Note that the copying process normally takes about 20 minutes to copy the complete 13 Gigabytes, and is best done using the Microsoft utility robocopy.exe, which can also reside on the Flash Drive...
NEW - 2008/09 -
Installation Instructions - when you have downloaded one,
several or all of the .zip files as below, then
unzip them into any empty directory and double click on the setup.bat file.
There may be some or many 'file not found' messages - do not worry.
The system unpacks SILENTLY into the directory C:\cd3wd_40 and subdirectories.....
- it will seem to you as though nothing is happening - do not be concerned. The process may
take up to 1 hour if all 40 downloads are being installed....
When the process has finished, then make a shortcut in the directory
C:\cd3wd_40\CD3WD to the file C:\cd3wd_40\CD3WD\index.htm and drag that shortcut out on to
the desktop. Double clicking on that shortcut will start the main menu...
Note that these instructions are for Windows PC's - Linux experts and users will know how to
unzip the .zip files and unpack the self-extracting .exe (zip) files....
Download cd3wd version 4.0 part 16 of 44 parts - cd3wd416.zip - see index for contents - the copy on www.download.com seems to be corrupted - here:
http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/CD3WD416.ZIP
Download cd3wd version 4.0 part 42 of 42 parts - this is a language patch for french and spanish
content in parts 1 and 2 - there had been a probem with graves, acutes and other special characters - now resolved -
here:
http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/CD3WD442.ZIP - or
Download cd3wd version 4.0 part 43 of 44 parts - cd3wd443.zip - Urban WATSAN info - see index for contents - here:
http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/CD3WD443.ZIP - or
Download cd3wd version 4.0 part 44 of 44 parts - cd3wd444.zip - Java Programming Coursework - see index for contents - here:
http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/CD3WD444.ZIP - or
2006/12 - Major expansion of cd3wd to 41 downloads, 4000 titles, of which
3000 are online and offline, and
1000 are offline only.... Note that cd3wd will be 13 Gigabytes install files, which will expand to 16 gigabytes when installed. People can still use the core cd3wd of course, which is about 1.2 giga install files, and 1.6 giga when installed. We apologise for the bloatware - it is just the way our material turns up..... But be aware that all the content on offer from us is good stuff - sometimes we DO turn away material which we consider to be peripheral and/or rubbish....
2006/12
- Major online and offline sections on
Livestock, Training, Metalwork, Auto Mechanics, Wind, Solar, other Alternative Energies, etc have been added 2006/12.
Downloads Part 3, 4, and 5 are available as offline and as online material; However, downloads Parts 6 through 41 are
available as OFFLINE Downloads ONLY. This is because the files are just too big to be effectively hostable without
practical problems for you the client and for us the web hosters.
To explain why are we have "only" 1000 additional titles which consume a gigantic 13 gigabytes diskspace, they are almost all
large pdf files which are graphics-based pdf files instead of text-based pdf files - i.e. they are document scans, without
any OCR (optical character recognition) processing being done.
Thanks to James Mwangi of wwww.spotafrica.com of Nairobi Kenya and to Kaj Wulf and Anastasia Musyoka of
Kenya Data Networks also of Nairobi Kenya for use of their Butterfly wi-fi service through
which about 13 gigabytes of cd3wd was uploaded at rates of up to 2 Megabits per second during February and March 2007 (not
bad for a 3rd world country!....)
Thanks to www.brinkster.com for making available amazing-value web hosting offers
yet again - which has greatly benefited cd3wd and will assist us greatly also in the future....
Thanks to our benefactor
in Zimbabwe - Garth Drummond -
www.webdevworld.com
and
www.yoafrica.com
for uploading the 2 downloads for version 4.0 Parts 1 and 2 back in early 2006.
The uploading of the complete cd3wd browsing content to our own website www.cd3wd.com in 2006/11 is thanks to John Dumelow of
Dumelow International - exporters of tractors and agricultural implements globally, with specialisation to East and Southern Africa
Thanks to the free
filezilla FTP upload program, which has to be the best I have seen (and it is available for Windows as well as for Linux)
There seems to be a market for say one person in each country globally to burn and snail-mail CD's
(on a chargeable basis)
for those who
dont have the necessary bandwidth - this even applies to USA and other major economies. I suggest that
if anyone wants to volunteer we put their email address on this website - everything after that can be done by direct contact - thanks.... Note that we are based in Africa and the mailing costs from there are
very high - therefore this is a business that we do not want to get into ourselves...
Each download is a self-extracting
.exe zip file, which extracts under Windows and Linux and probably under Mac also (if any problems under Mac then
extract under Windows, re-zip to normal zip file, and transfer to Mac for unzipping).
Note for Linux users - use the command:
unzip FISH.EXE
unzip FORESTRY.EXE
etc to unzip those .exe files you download
Sorry it took so long to get things organised. We will announce on this page as soon as the new download system is in place...
We realise that because of the high quality and useability of the material in CD3WD, a lot of
web browsing and downloading has been for use in Western countries and economies; we welcome this
and are pleased since this demonstrates that CD3WD is not some second-class solution for the world's
less developed countries - it is a first-class solution for the world's LDC's....
Anyway, we want people who are using, enjoying and benefiting from CD3WD to also push for its distribution to
3rd world countries - thank you!
CD3WD is a project to give high quality technical development information to the end user in the 3rd world,
and to international and local NGO's and individuals who are interested in Practical Action
and an end to hot air and the
cynical exploitation of the poor and needy by the rich and verbose.
November 30 2005 we fixed all
the link problems on our website and issued a new CD with
the same content, but one which will work with Linux, Mac etc.. (the original CD always worked perfectly with Windows).
In the last 16 months we have achieved an excellent 3,000 CD downloads of 660 megabytes each;
and an average of 8,000 webpage views per day; both figures are climbing....
The downloads alone are equivalent to the distribution of 2.5 million books and booklets
on practical 3rd world development technical information.
We are making provision for a rapid expansion
of these figures...
We feel that at the moment, the continued dissemination of CD3WD in its existing form with its existing content is our
top priority - we want every computer in the 3rd world to have CD3WD installed, including those projected in MIT's
OLPC (one laptop per child) Green Machine US$ 100 Laptop Project. Of course if and when content providers come to us with
good additional content we will incorporate and reissue, but some content providers
have zero interest in the digitalisation of their material - they prefer to maximise their profits and jobs rather than
maximise the benefit to mankind.
