Don't know if these guys are still in business, but it was a cute idea at the time...
http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/about.php -walter On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-i...@silbe.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic posting, but as some deployments might > actually be facing these issues I thought it might be worth a try. > > As part of my study, I'm going to give a talk on networking challenges and > possible solutions in "developing countries" (*). The title of the original > proposal (given to me) was "Disruptive Tolerant Networking for the Amazonas" > (**). > > I'm looking for any reference (english only, though) on non-technological > (or rather not mainly technological - social, legal, organisational, > anything) aspects of the networking challenges (esp., but not only > non-realtime access) and their solutions. > > Do you do data transport via USB stick from village to village? Do you > operate a proxy for intermittent internet access (like wwwoffle)? Any other > kind of high latency data transfer or communication? If so, I'd be very > interested in hearing details about it. Tell me your story! > > > (*) In need of a better term. It's more about areas without established / > stable networking infrastructure. > (**) Also known as Delay Tolerant Networking. > > CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJJ72vuAAoJELpz82VMF3DaeyMH/3RK1yyxA89WfY6UU4GR3Mfj > QYi65d2rWsuMuj0+jlttwP6zCYlJrztF0BDYsD+Whw5Mbox+1NklT+4WgTMrMjIg > 6AlCdYtGxVj1FJvlWvLTvwjFDgJiDK4WI8aJbz5Bto9U+G0eBTSanc91IXgDb4im > QZWJZvVbwq+7vOmP+fmuVEvZJS4fi0R7VK+GU28Sjs0zQQG7ItmOOZKc2PgGBRl0 > WvCwymHEFQahsH/ZQichdokmZpLituYPZsjTATSArYjHhEzUH2wAHcNMzfQbpHal > s6IsMDVLD94781mmxT206Hp6E7wnyZL+bMTiqjA5fXy8TQUoVz6kDnBjvTFgoxI= > =Jhue > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep