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Networking Technology At Work In Rural India
abhikhurana writes "Whenever a news item about a plan to offer aid to a poor community in a developing country to set up an Internet backbone or any similar story is posted on Slashdot, there is always a debate among the readers if there is any point in spending so much money on such activities when people in such communities don't have basic amenities like clean drinking water. So when I came acorss this story,
I decided to post it to slashdot. It's about new software developed by Indian Institute of
Technology, Chennai, which allows video conferencing on low-bandwidth connections, and the impact this technology is having
on the small rural communities where it has been deployed."
"Doc? Doc? Hey you there? I've got the kidney in my left hand and the crowbar in my right?"
Doctor on other side of the world..."Hey, iChat a/v went down again, what the hell does 'beta' mean anyway??"
Dude, if a community can't afford water, how is it going to afford e-anything?
That would be e-water.
Just hook up the device to a well, and you can pump it remotely. Needs its own IP address though, so it better be IPv6 so we don't run out....
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
So when I came acorss [sic] this story, I decided to post it to slashdot.
:)
Funny how you just up and "decided to post it." Have you discovered some secret way to bypass the editors? If so, please share.
We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.
Since there are 2.4 million places of worship and 1.5 million schools. So there is a stronge demand of Cybertemples of course.
I weep.