On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Edward Cherlin<[email protected]> wrote: > From my daily Google alert on OLPC, two of the essential pieces of the > Earth Treasury mission. I have been wishing for a way to get these > services into every accessible refugee camp and region of oppression, > and here it is. I have called him to discuss how Gnuveau/SolarNetOne > might collaborate with the profusion of OLPC projects around the > world. >
Hi, For the connectivity aspect, you may also want to look at http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090630005312&newsLang=en The article describes a device which lets you combine multiple cellular "broadband" modems together. In countries like India, EDGE connections are getting cheaper (eg: I pay around 4 USD a month - no caps on data transfer). Of course, EDGE has not reached everywhere, but basic GPRS is available even in places like the Sundarbans (the inhabited portions), and EDGE is spreading fast (this especially true for the private network operators, who are a bit more expensive than the govt owned company). CDMA is also spreading fast in India - I think the Khairat school pilot was being provided connectivity through a single CDMA modem. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
