Digital Divide?

Thanks to question from the audience about the large part of the world that doesn't have internet, prompted Howard to point a finger at me, to talk about GeekCorps.
The focus is on wireless tech as the means to getting the 3rd world on-line without the top-down approach of the telecomms industry.

Specifically the power of end-user controlled wireless in the license-free spectrum. Seriously the power of WLAN really is related to the fact that it requires no infrastructure placed there by an existing telecomm. It can be built step-by-step by the end-users.

In Ghana, where houses are built one weekend at a time, one room at a time, because of the 60% interest-rates, the severely limiting financial climate which prehibits savings and loans, but requires investment in small batches equivalent to surplus income. In such a financial climate, end-user controlled, step-by-step networks such as WLAN is infinitely more useful than large-scale, government controlled infrastructure.