Hi Carlos, Interesting to learn about your project. I would be very interested to get some updates from you as the project takes off.
You might be interested in this study that APC commissioned some 4 years ago: https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/research/unbounded-possibilities-observations-sustaining-ru best regards karel On 06/12/2012 01:55 AM, Carlos Rey-Moreno wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Carlos Rey-Moreno, and I'm working on the deploying of a > participatory-designed community wireless mesh network (using > Mesh-Potatoes) in a rural community in South Africa. In the first > stages of the project we'll be focusing only on providing internal > calls in the network and designing with the local institutions the > prices of these calls as for making the maintenance of the network > sustainable. > > Together with the deployment we want to understand the socio-economic > impact that our intervention will cause in the community, so I was > wondering whether any of f you know of any assessment of the > socio-enconomic impact of a deployed community wireless networks (I > dont mind if they were rural or urban, "north" or "south")? > > Thank you very much in advance > > Carlos > > _______________________________________________ > wsfii-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karel Novotny working from Montevideo, Uruguay Knowledge Sharing Projects Coordinator Strategic Technologies & Network Development Programme APC - The Association for Progressive Communications http://www.apc.org GSM: +598 983 010 99 (GMT -2) sip:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------- Online Monday - Thursday/en línea lunes - jueves ---------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ wsfii-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
