Infrastructure is a major issue any ICT enabling effort - be it the Simputer, Village Internet, WiFi... but greatly underestimated. Whereas about every hamlet among your potential sites may even have an educated, sometimes computer-aware if not entirely PC-literate person as your potential user. the supporting utilities such as transmitting-receiving networks, land-lines and basic to all these - reliable mains power at a reasonable voltage - are often insufficient if not absent, while the local administration and official figures may point otherwise.
Therefore, any ICT enabling programme needs to work on a two-pronged approach: To liaise with the local administration (communications and energy are mostly government owned or controlled) and pursue the progress of local electrification and comm networks, at the same time planning a supporting ICE programme, to the extent of your aims. Seeking partnerships with such developmental bodies including NGOs, the microPower initiative modestly envisions the independence of a working class rural / urban fringe family from public utilities for its most basic energy, information and communication needs. First, microPower offers autonomous power solutions for the rural / semi-urban beneficiary and will soon follow this up with OEMs in the ICT sector with appropriate built-in solar power and energy storage devices. To elaborate on this initiative, a data sheet on microPower solar photovoltaic battery chargers as well as PDFs on the product range (35KB) and its underlying concept (115KB) are available on request. For enquiries: The microPower Initiative c/o Udit Chaudhuri Unika Enterprises e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel - Fax: +91-22-26045595 Regards, Udit Chaudhuri ------------ ***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/>
