Now a postman will connect all rural areas of developing countries through wirelessly. A United States entrepreneur has introduced an “Internet postman” to rural areas of India, Cambodia, Rwanda, Costa Rica and Paraguay. United Villages will provide the Wi-Fi service. The Massachusetts company has developed a technology to connect isolated villages through wirelessly to the Internet. Villagers can use pre-paid cards to write e-mails or record phone messages and save their words at computer kiosks installed in schools and community halls.
Really, this is good initiative step to connect isolated villages. Hope this step will work out and soon our villagers can access Internet through wirelessly.
5 comments:
this is fabulous stuff! well dug out link ritu!
Hope this works...i am not sure of the project details as yet...but sure sounds v good!
though on 2nd thought, a lot of initial 'ifs'/ infrastructure required!
a very good concept but I think there are many practical challenges...I would like see the report from the village Kalapathar where they have (or in process) implemented this already. Only the press releases are available but no report. India as they say is a graveyard of pilots and my only worry is that it shouldn't be limited to a few villages. I don't want to sound like a pessimist or a non believer but its important to know their business model and how are they thinking of sustaining this effort and if CSCs has taken off, do we really need this? An entrepreneur from United States may not be aware of ground realities in rural India or he is little too late???
i think this shud happen inspite of the CSCs...I mean keeping the CSC there w/o ne use is no use at all!
Though, wht this abt village kalapathar? Share a link na...
I think this initiative will not be the part of CSCs.
It will work out but how that is also big question?
to Upasna: What is the guarantee that people will use this, if they are not using CSCs... CSCs are the permanent solution for a village in terms of putting in place the infrastructure and connectivity. Find below the link, image says village Kalapathar, but there is no story.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/wireless--broadband/rolling-hotspots-take-villages-online/2007/04/03/1175366225249.html
To Ritu: If we are able to roll out CSCs in India as they are planned, I think this concept is redundant and not required. But yes for poorer countries where governments cant afford putting up Kiosks, this is a very good option though I still am not aware of business model etc.
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