<div dir="ltr">Dear Ina and List<div><br></div><div>I have been enjoying receiving your list posts and when I saw this one, I thought I would take the opportunity to introduce our organisation, which provides managed DSpace hosting for institutions such as universities and NGOs.</div><div><br></div><div>We also provide DSpace customisation and integration as well as Omeka, OJS, and Learning Managment System Hosting whihc can be integrated with the repositories to act as a leanring object repository.</div><div><br></div><div>Specialising in Education Technologies, our company mission is to make these services affordable for developing countries:</div><div><a href="http://knowledgearc.com/en/developing-country">http://knowledgearc.com/en/developing-country</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>We have worked with the WHO, Institute of Development Studies, EIFL, universities in Norway, Myanmar, UK, Ghana, Australia, among others.</div><div><br></div><div>We would welcome an opportunity to discuss memebers' projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>Michael Guthrie</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">KnowledgeArc</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:michael@knowledgearc.com" target="_blank">michael@knowledgearc.com</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="tel:%2B44%207872%20961%20612" value="+447872961612" target="_blank">+44 7872 961 612</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://knowledgearc.com/" target="_blank">http://knowledgearc.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><img src="http://t.sidekickopen65.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4Lz0KW8q-ldq3LjlqPN7d-0fsd3_yKW7QW6qB1k1H6H0?si=6037997602734080&pi=03907e05-8748-44a3-c6e3-cb53f21a421b" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Ina Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Universities often has the required ICT infrastructure and skills to install open source software. If you however do not have the necessary expertise and server space, and if the ICT policy at your institution allows, an option is to host all in the cloud. See the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Hetzner self-managed servers: <a href="https://hetzner.co.za/dedicated-servers/" target="_blank">https://hetzner.co.za/<wbr>dedicated-servers/</a> (they do the server setup, and your system admin can then install the software)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Hetzner managed servers: <a href="https://hetzner.co.za/managed-servers/" target="_blank">https://hetzner.co.za/managed-<wbr>servers/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Host any open source software in the cloud, e.g. DSpace, OJS, Moodle, and more. If you know of other trusted cloud service providers, please share anytime. If you cannot afford the above on your own, maybe partner with others and share the expense.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif">Ina<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"century gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Ina Smith</span></b><span lang="EN-ZA" style=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