I work for the parent company in UK of UUNET regionally hq’d in Jo’burg. It’ll be interesting to see what we can do to help you with the project. I’ll download the pdf off Changethis and if there is some more detail, email me to let me know and I’ll email you back my office address.
RB
]]>Thanks for the links to stuff happening outside Kenya, the “Space to Space” link was particularly interesting since there is a similar phenomenon in Kenya called “Simu ya Jamii” – literally “The community/family phone” which is basically a battery/solar powered GSM desktop phone.
Here is another link for you, a paper by Nyaki Adeya on “Wireless Technologies and Development in Africa”. The paper deals with the idea that mobile telephony could potentially be supplied at 1/6th the current cost as well as some real implementations of solutions using mobile technology.
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