Within thispaper, philosophy of the knowledge sharing, vision of the network, and how it can give benefits toIndonesia are described. The status of the network is described that show the successfulness of thearchitecture in tying together partner’s knowledge from all big islands of Indonesia (Sumatera, Java,Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Irian Jaya) whether they have dedicated internet connection or only a dial-upone. Currently 13 institutions have joined the network and 15+ in progress of developing their servers.Features of the software, Ganesha Digital Library (GDL version 3.1) are presented, that is now distributedas a Free-Software that is based on MySQL, PHP, and Apache.Ismail Fahmi; Sekjen IndonesiaDLN, dan Ketua Knowledge Management Research Group – ITB, ismail@itb.ac.id
