[UgaBYTES] Wireless Africa

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--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Meddie Mayanja <mmayanja at idrc.ca> wrote:

From: Meddie Mayanja <mmayanja at idrc.ca>
Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] Wireless Africa
To: "ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org" <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 6:58 AM

Cleopa, thanks for sharing this.

Meddie

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[mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Cleopa Timon Otieno
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:35 AM
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Subject: [UgaBYTES] Wireless Africa

The just concluded IDRC funded Wireless Africa Project facilitated by Meraka
Institute, CSIR introduced simple technological solutions Africa as continent
needs at this time and age. Voice over IP and Wireless Internet Service Provider
(VOIP in a box, and WISP in a box, mesh potato, Village Telco, Internet and
Phone billing) Through WISP internet link can be shared amongst neighbors such
as schools, organizations and institutions and have a billing system which
enables the host to monitor, control and bill users.
This was a technical and business workshop; to build technical capacity to
extend existing networks through introduction of new technologies and use the
business model skills acquired sustain it.  The workshop brought together over
13 African countries (refer to website), with two representatives each. Most
technological solution use the open hardware and software to create robust
equipment affordable to Africa and built with Africa in Mind. The technologies
are simplified and often referred to as being in a 'BOX'. The amazing
part, the equipments are low power too.

The future according to the facilitators Alberto Escudero-Pascual and Louise
Berthilson founders  of IT46, a Swedish consultancy company with focus on
information technology in developing regions is that the solutions should be a
plug and play piece of equipment that any one can plug into an existing network
(LAN or WAN) to give it more functionality.  The team wouldn't be complete
without Sebastian Büttrich is a generalist in technology with a background in
scientific programming and physics. Originally from Berlin, Germany, he worked
with IconMedialab in Copenhagen from 1997 until 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in
quantum physics from the Technical University of Berlin.
His physics background includes fields like RF and microwave spectroscopy,
photovoltaic systems, and advanced maths. He held a session. He is also a
performing and recording musician. What a talent. He held a captivating session
on Mesh Networking and internet Billing. Did you know that mesh networking
through use of the very simple networking devices can extend your wide area
network over 200km? It is possible.

The Wireless Africa consortia was present and was part of the very able
facilitators.

The underpinning philosophy of the Wireless Africa initiative is to develop
business models that support community owned networks whereby the infrastructure
is owned and/or operated locally; local networking costs contained within the
community and traffic is aggregated at the community level to save through bulk
purchase of bandwidth.

Read more from http://www.wireless-africa.org

--
Cleopa Timon Otieno
Ugunja Community Resource Centre
www.ugunja.org
P.O.Box 330-40606
Ugunja
Kenya
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