Internet CensorshipTranscript

Here's a link to the transcript I'm currently reading titled--Bloggers in Prison, Too. Traces recent events on internet censorship. If you get the time take a look. Inspires me spread the internet disease all over the world.

http://www.political-explorations.info/en/wiki/Bloggers_in_Prison%2C_Too

-Count Chocula

Spreading Internet in Rural Communities

United Villages - First Mile Solutions (division of United Villages) provides villages in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with internet and cell phone service by transporting Mobile Access Points around on buses or motorcycles.

Technology/Engineering/Transportation Outline

*highlighted is the starting point for research

I. Technology

a. Energy

i. Electricity

ii. Heat

1. Geothermal

2. Solar

iii. Hydroelectric

iv. Wind?

b. Communication

i. Cell phones

ii. Internet

1. Satellite

2. Max wireless

iii. IT

1. management

iv. GPS/GIS

c. Fabrication (parts/3D printers)

d. Water technology

e. Appropriate Technology

i. Peanut Butter

ii. $100 laptop

f. Transportation

How do we move people and material from one place to another?

· To and from tourist center

· What are they going to go to and come from?

· What are people doing (transporting)? How long will they stay there? Why are they in certain locations (giving money, work, etc)? Are they rockstars hankering for chocolate?

i. SUV’s

ii. Bridges

iii. Boats

iv. Scooters

v. Planes

vi. Hang-gliders

vii. Zip lines

viii. Animals

1. Horses

2. Donkeys

3. Llamas

ix. Trains

II. Engineering

a. Factory

i. Design

ii. Machinery

iii. HVAC

b. Energy

i. Site Plan (Architecture overlap)

ii. Water management

iii. Building Orientation

iv. Square footages

c. Building Considerations

i. Foundation

ii. Structure

iii. Loads

iv. MEP (mech, elec, plumbing)

v. ADA (American disabilities act)

d. LEED

Communication

Cell phones -

Cell phones address poverty in developing nations: http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0712-rhett_butler.html

SunMicrosystems has $30-$50 internet phone as an alternative to the "$100 laptop". Not actually selling handsets, but building partnerships with manufacturers. JavaFX technology, supremly mobile, delivered to phone companies in binary (so can't be split). May 2007 seems to be the last mention of it online.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/11980/53/ , http://www.news.com/2100-1012_3-6182301.html

Internet in Developing Countries

a. Organizations

i. InfoDev (http://www.infodev.org/en/index.html)

1. InfoDev works to promote better understanding and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as tools of poverty reduction and broad-based, sustainable development. InfoDev's work focuses on three main themes: Access for All; Mainstreaming ICT; and Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Growth.

a. NEPAD e-schools initiative - a multi-country, multi-stakeholder, continental initiative, which intends to impart ICT skills to young Africans in primary and secondary schools and to use ICT to improve the provision of education in schools.

ii. Village Phone (http://www.grameenfoundation.org/what_we_do/technology_programs/village_phone/)

1. Grameen Foundation serves as a catalyst and creates the linkage between the telecommunications sector and the microfinance sector to enable microfinance clients to borrow the money needed to purchase a "Village Phone business" – literally, a business in a box.

2. The village phone is: a phone, a booster antenna, and cables to connect them

10/1 JSanders

10/1/07

I. Communication

a. Cell phones

b. Internet

i. Satellite

ii. Max wireless

c. IT

i. Management

d. GPS/GIS

e. Education

II. Fabrication (parts/3D printers)

III. Appropriate Technology

a. Peanut Butter

b. $100 laptop

Wireless Internet Opportunities for Developing Countries – pdf with collection of articles

MIT Fab Labs – providing materials and technologies to cultures, allowing them to get their own ideas off the ground

Neil Gershenfeld talk about fab lab

Fab by Neil Gershenfeld (amazon) (library.wustl)

Digital Fabricator – small factory that can make computers data into solid objects

Fab Machines

· RepRap – rapid prototyping machine to build duplicate machines

· Fabbers introduction (2000)

· Fab@home wiki

· Candy Fab – uses sugar to produce 3D models