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The Segarama telecentre bets its future on wireless |
| Soon funding for the Segerama telecentre, located in Western Tanzania, will end. The centre was funded by UNESCO and IDRC and has been operating for 4 years. It provides internet access, computer training and houses an FM radio. It also provides internet to other organizations in the community using Motorola's canopy wireless system. Though that system works very well, it is too expensive for many potential customers in Segerama, so Felician Ncheye, the director of the telecentre explains that they believe that they can market a lower-cost wireless service to small business in the town. To do so they will need funding however. |
| Date: 2008-06-06 22:19:56 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Why building an FM transmitter in rural Africa makes sense |
| Joseph Sekuku took designs given to him by a friend in London, Anas Taliweh, last December and went around collecting the bits and pieces he needed to build an FM transmitter. He has added a Do-It-Yourself antenna too. Joseph has built a low-cost FM radio and added that to his low-cost d-i-y community telecentre. It would seem that it doesn't always take big projects from international donors to bring the internet to rural Africa, it just takes a really smart and brave man like Joseph. |
| Date: 2008-06-06 22:17:18 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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New Telecentre in Patriensa, Ghana |
| A film to illustrate our time in Ghana whilst filming the building of a Telecentre for the people of Patriensa |
| Date: 2008-06-06 22:15:00 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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FADECO Telecentre in Tanzania |
| Joseph Sekuku introduces his telecentre in rural Tanzania. |
| Date: 2008-06-06 22:12:22 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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How a telecentre uses wireless to share its costs |
| The cost of the internet in rural Africa can be substantial. Joseph explains how he shares the cost of the VSAT (the satellite that provides his internet) with other organizations in his community, thereby making it possible for him to have the internet while also connecting an agricultural NGO and a secondary school to the internet, as well as a business. This has become a standard business model for rural internet in Africa, but few telecentres have been able to sustain it, mostly because they haven't learnt how to provide the service themselves and they can't afford to pay for someone to come and install or maintain the equipment. The key, it would seem, is having someone who can figure out how to install this gear. Joseph later explains that resources like the Wireless Networking in the Developing World book have been essential to him being able to support this system. |
| Date: 2008-06-06 21:59:14 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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How Can Wireless Internet Connectivity Be Of Use... |
| This short film documents a training workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania organized by the Association for Progressive Communication. The three day workshop trained over 40 people from throughout eastern Africa on how to build and maintain wireless networks for their own projects, and among other skills, taught them how to make their own wifi antennas out of fruit tins. |
| Date: 2008-06-06 19:54:49 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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