Rural Access

Channels

• Internet Cafe
• Telecentre
• Rural Kiosk
• Local networks through Wifi and WiMax

Examples

The mesh potato network in South Africa develops a cheap phone system for rural areas. This is an initiative to assemble/develop the cheapest, easiest to setup, easiest to manage, scalable, Open Source, standards-based, wireless local do-it-yourself telephone company toolkit in the world. The goal of the project is to render local telephony in developing countries to be so cheap as to be virtually free.

Rural Kiosks provides rural & underdeveloped regions with Internet access through community kiosks using virtualization technology which allows for up to 10 users to share one PC. The kiosks are a made-in-Africa solution that are manufactured in Kenya with a modular knock design that makes for easy shipping.

A Tuk Tuk as a solar power mobile information center. The project by Voices of Africa to spread information for development through rural villages in Kenya. The Mobile Information Empowerment Center will bring computers and the Internet to locations with no infrastructure in an innovative and sustainable way.