Friday, October 17, 2003
Those who learn from *this* history could be blessed by repeating it
This is a story of wireless networks, Linux, VoIP, war and reconciliation.
Earl Mardle from Australia emailed comments on SMART Letter #90, which led me to his excellent blog. An older entry said:
This success is replicable.
Those who learn this history will *not* be condemned by repeating it.
Earl Mardle from Australia emailed comments on SMART Letter #90, which led me to his excellent blog. An older entry said:
My Friend Lee Thorn . . . wanted to start the process of reconciliation between Laotians and the wealthy world that spent so much of its wealth turning Laos into the most bombed, most mined most devastated nation on the face of the earth, and did it in secret . . . they have built the Pedal-Powered Wireless Communications Network.Quoting from the Jhai Foundation website:
"Without telephone lines or electricity, amid torrential rains followed by high temperatures and thick red dust, standard technologies won't function.The network is up and running!
*snip*
[The Jhai Foundation is developing:]
A rugged computer and printer assembled from off-the-shelf components that draws less than 20 watts in normal use - less than 70 watts when the printer is printing - and that can survive dirt, heat, and immersion in water
A wireless Local Area Network with relay stations based on the 802.11b protocol . . .
A Lao-language version of the free, Linux-based KDE graphical desktop and Lao-language office tools . . .
Villagers [will be able] to make telephone calls within Lao PDR and internationally (using voice-over-Internet technologies)"
This success is replicable.
Those who learn this history will *not* be condemned by repeating it.
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