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Jhai PC photos
So, here are the first photos from the Jhai PC project to install pedal-powered wireless Internet into Laotian villages. Yahoo! News - World Photos - Jhai Project [via boingboing] I also mentioned this project on January 3rd
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Telecenter Special
Over at the Development Gateway they have what looks like an interesting overview of Telecenters. Community Telecenters: Assuring Sustainability & Impact on Rural Poverty Reduction (DG Special Coverage) This Highlight focuses on community telecenters, in particular, on their sustainability and effectiveness. Individual telecenters have been shown to foster profound developmental
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more universal access
Universal Internet access: does it make sense? a few additional, worthwhile comments to the Charles Kenny debate on Universal access that I've posted about here and here. This time from the Development Gateway. It's not that this isn't a worthwhile debate, just that everyone
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Postmen to carry telephones
From the very useful Digital Dividend we get this interesting note: Project Capsule the plan would equip postal delivery persons with a wireless phone to carry on their routes. Under this model, capitalizing on the wide distribution system of the postal service, telephony would reach virtually everywhere the mail goes
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Funny and Accurate (apparently)
Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics. Not content with just singing and acting, in the following pages, she will guide you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made it possible to
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Busy Internet
bridges.org has a case studies on Busy Internet. BusyInternet (BI) Accra is the largest technology incubator in Africa. It provides businesses and the public with affordable, state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT) services, customer service, and a social environment that promotes technology use. The fun part for me is
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another great project
Science and Technology Collaborium Web Site The Science & Technology (S&T) Collaborium initiative focuses on the transfer of knowledge and Open Source technology using the state-of-the art on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to Universities, Research Centers, private Corporations and Governments from developing countries to help sustain economic
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Wireless long-haul links
Here's two links to interesting long-haul 802.11 projects around the world, with a focus on the developing world: * KLL: Activities: Digital Gangetic Plains, India * Mymensingh: Node, Bangladesh
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wireless long-haul maillist
Simon Woodside has set up a mailing list for: Discussion about long-distance/rural wireless data connections, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, long-haul, back-haul, whatever. Generally oriented toward commodity, open-spectrum products, like 802.11b (Wi-Fi), 802.11a, 802.11g, etc. Here's the wireless-longhaul Info Page, and here's the currently pretty
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The Tiger walks tonight…
Thanks to riptari for this analogy related to giving Internet to people who don't want it Tigers eat meat, so if you talk loudly and repeatedly about how great it is that you're offering them bigger and bigger mountains of spinach salad every day, I think
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Amazing resource on ICT fro development
The Canadian Aid Agency IDRC, has a fabulous research project called Acacia. * demonstrate how ICTs can enable communities to solve their development problems in ways that build firmly on local goals, cultures, strengths, and processes; * build a body of knowledge capable of identifying the policies, technologies, approaches, and methodologies instrumental
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Positive examples….
CNN Specials - Virtual Villages This Flash-based (why?) website has 4 examples of IT use in the developing world. It's a bit blue-eyed, a mass-media fashion, and has no info on the price or cost/benefit of these projects. It's nice and shiny though, and examples