I am interested in learning about projects that have extended lower cost e-mail access into the remotest areas - particularly cheaper non-satellite options. Articles, tutorials, and links to software, etc.. are of interest as well.
Here are a few resources of which I am aware: Digital Messaging for Amateur Radio http://winlink.org/ E-mail at Sea http://www.hffax.de/html/email_at_sea.html http://www.sailmail.com/ http://www.scs-ptc.com/news.html http://www.airmail2000.com/ http://www.airmail2000.com/pprimer.htm http://www.yachtcom.co.uk/SSB-email/index.html Radio E-mail network in Congo http://www.worldcom.nl/worldcom/congo.htm Radio E-mail in West Africa: The Complete Version http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6299 Indian Wireless Village Internet Cafes ~ 56K up to 25km - with special optimized software/tech to support video conferencing, a telephone, etc.. (this is not wi-fi) http://www.n-logue.com/technology.htm I am also interested in any options that include low-bandwidth store and forward mirroring of web content for remote use or one-way satellite downlink options that are cost-effective. I am working on some recommendations related to the use of the Internet in election administration and I'd like to include some pointers to lower cost e-mail solutions for communication among election officials and observers as well as "remote printing" of timely flyers and content delivered electronically to places off the communications grid. Also, I was recently in Mongolia where the first ISP in the country still relies on an expensive 256K satellite connection for all their users. They were looking for any ideas that would help them keep traffic in Mongolia (I suggested that they mirror http://tucows.com for example) whenever possible. A 32 KB direction connection costs a business/NGO something like $500 a month. I am interested in metropolitan wireless options like iBurst <http://www.iburst.com.au> or Wi-Fi (this is apparently licensed in Mongolia) options that have routed around monopoly telco infrastructures in an economically sustainable, lower consumer cost way. The issue of remote off the grid Internet/telephone access is huge as well and postal service is quite mixed. Thanks, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join DoWire: http://e-democracy.org/do Speaking requests: http://publicus.net/speaker.html Watch my BBC World interview: http://publicus.net/media.html ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
