Rugged, solar powered VSAT broadband in rural communities

Posted on December 6, 2008
Filed Under Prototype |

I just sat down next to Raphael Marambii, who happens to be the innovations and knowledge management specialist for a small local NGO called ALIN (arid lands information network), at a cyber cafe in Nairobi. As happens in Africa, you get into conversations, and I found out that they have been connecting rural communities via community knowledge centers (sort of rural cybercafes cum libraries / training centers) running solar powered VSAT dishes. They have deployed a unique prototype solar p

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Rugged, solar powered VSAT broadband in rural communities

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