I am with Media Lab Asia (www.medialabasia.org) and we are exploring the
use of 802.11 technology for rural networks. However, we envisage these
as small village telcos that will be set up by rural entrepreneurs.
Decades of experience with Universal Service Obligation etc makes it
clear that the b
Has anyone on this list come across a deployment of ICT specifically
meant for powering computers in rural areas? I would be interested in
hearing about this.
Thanks,
Venky
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I should have been a bit more specific. What I am trying to do is put
together a chapter on how pico hydro systems can be used to power
computers (or a network of computers) in rural areas. The idea is to
provide a practical, step-by-step guide that can be used by anyone to
set up a pico hydro syst
Dear Gary,
I wonder if the Indian experience may help. The Telecom Mission that was set
up in the mid-80s set up Public Call Offices (PCOs), essentially manned
phone booths where revenues were split between the PCO operator and the
telco. The experiment was so successful that by 2000, 650,000 PCOs
In India, we have the public call offices (PCOs) -- essentially manned
telephone booths where the revenues are shared between the telco and the
PCO operator. There are more than 600,000 of these PCOs across the
country. There are many Community Information Centres where one can
access the Internet
> 1. What new "high impact" technologies are on the 3-year horizon? Who
> (exactly) needs to do what (concretely) to make those technologies
> widely available?
It seems to me that most of the component technologies needed for
deploying ICT in rural areas are already in place. What really needs to
