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  1. Other way round is more interesting by hackertourist · · Score: 1 · on A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available

    Years ago, there was a story where they used motorbikes with wifi to connect villages to each other and the nearest city. This was in Cambodia before cheap mobile phones, they had a Fidonet-ish setup where outgoing email would be uploaded to the motorbike and stored there for delivery to the next village or to an Internet-connected computer in the city. The company that set this up.

  2. DTN by usman_ismail · · Score: 1 · on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows?

    You need a Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) solution, there is no commercial DTN's out there that I know off but the DAKNet people at MIT were working on something and a group a U of Waterloo has an implementation. http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/ http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/KioskNet

  3. Re:Beat me to it. by qw0ntum · · Score: 1 · on NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet

    Sorry another similar project as well I forgot about: http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/

  4. First Mile vs. Last Mile by michaelmalak · · Score: 5, Interesting · on TV Airwaves To Deliver Internet?
    Here I was about to lambast the submitter for using "First Mile" instead of "Last Mile", only to discover after Googling that "First Mile" was coined in 1997:

    The term "First Mile" was coined by Titus Moetsabi, a poet/ developmental communications specialist, at a Southern African Rural Connectivity Workshop in Harare in February, 1997. He was the first to turn the "last mile" concept on its head and help us think instead of rural communities from the user perspective -- the first mile, not the last. This term expresses a more equitable and far less top-down approach to the challenge of providing universal connectivity, regardless of location and income.
    The UN has a more detailed account of the coining of the phrase.
  5. K-Yan . . .Come on! by starunj · · Score: 1 · on Third World Research, Development & Innovation

    Whats so great about the K-Yan?

    Some duct tape, a htpc and a projector . . . thats all it is.

    Its almost as if the journalists are treating the guy like a retard - give him too much credit for something so simple.

    Theres definitely more innovative stuff than that, like DakNet http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/demo.htm, who came up with LOW cost internet access for rural areas.

    I dont mean to take credit away from K-Yan - it might be a good product- but is it innovative?

  6. "First Mile" solutions by Quixote · · Score: 3, Interesting · on The Internet by Motorbike
    Here's a website of interest. I don't know if it is mentioned in the article (what? this is slashdot! we don't RTFA here! ;-) ).

    I'm hoping this website isn't sitting on some guy's motorbike. Please be gentle, folks: we don't want to slashdot a biker.

  7. Re:What it's really about by BillThies · · Score: 2, Informative · on A Search Engine For The Slower Net
    Hi, I'm a graduate student working on the TEK project.

    Thank you for your post, it's an important point -- TEK is targeting users that might have no direct Internet connectivity. In some places, it can be cheaper to have an email-only account instead of full-fledged web access; for these users, TEK provides web content using only email.

    In addition, there are cases where no connectivity is available, but emails can be sent in a store-and-forward fashion. For instance, we are working with First Mile Solutions, who provides store-and-forward services to rural communities using a mobile access point (such as a bus) that visits each kiosk during the day. Moreover, if the connections are unreliable by any measure, then email is a better medium than HTTP, as no end-to-end connection is needed at any time.

    More information about the TEK project, including some statistics on Internet rates in the regions we are targeting, is available on the TEK Homepage