Kennisnet
Encyclopedia
Kennisnet is a Dutch
public (semi-governmental) 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. The Davindi
search engine is used to search for information in the Kennisnet database.
Kennisnet is providing hosting and bandwidth for fifty Wikimedia servers since June 2005, located at SARA
in the Science Park Amsterdam
.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
public (semi-governmental) organization dedicated to ICT-innovation for primary and secondary education and vocational training. Kennisnet provides educational content and information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
to teachers, pupils and parents. Kennisnet also stimulates the use of information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
in educational processes by providing technical and practical support for several innovative educational aids. The Davindi
Davindi
Davindi is a search engine for searching the open source Kennisnet database. The name is a pun on Leonardo Davinci's surname and the Dutch word vind which means find in English....
search engine is used to search for information in the Kennisnet database.
Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam is a Dutch foundation that provides supercomputers, colocation, networks and high-end visualisation to academic institutions...
in the Science Park Amsterdam
Science Park Amsterdam
Science Park Amsterdam is a science park in stadsdeel Oost/Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with accommodations for science and business and housing. Science Park Amsterdam focusses on IT and life sciences. Among the knowledge-based institutions present at the science park there are...
.