[IAEP] OT: Networking challenges in "developing countries"

[Edward Cherlin]

They are in Cambridge. Why don't you call them? I'll ping them on
behalf of Earth Treasury. Let me know if you find any more like them.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-iaep at 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
>>
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>> http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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