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Linux-Announce Digest #204
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Linux-Announce Digest #204, Volume #4 Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:13:03 EDT
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NEWS: GNU/Linux-based computer system... in Lao (Frederick Noronha)
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:57:05 CST
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: GNU/Linux-based computer system... in Lao
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: sabrina syed <sabrina_syed2002@yahoo.com>
To: india-gii@lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [india-gii] Digital dividends -Jhai PC-Laos
I haven't checked, but presuming this is not yet
posted as news on list.
Read some where this one costs around 400 US dollars.
-sabrina.
"Jhai PC is a project of non-government organisation
(NGO), Jhai Foundation. "
"Jhai Computer and Communication System Stage One:
What we are trying to do is give five remote villages,
which have no electricity or phones, a means of
communication and the use of simple business tools.
Each village will have a Jhai computer connected in a
network with the other villages that connects to the
internet and to our high school-based Internet
Learning Centers.
These villagers can use these Jhai computers to
communicate in the Lao language by email and by voice
with each other and with others, for example, people
who buy their products in Vientiane and our staff in
the United States. The Jhai computers will also
provide them with the opportunity to do simple
business functions like writing documents and creating
spreadsheets for budgetary and simple accounting
purposes.
The design team is headed by Lee Felsenstein assisted
by Mark Summer. The software is LINUX-based and is
being localized into the Lao language by Anousak
Souphavanh and his team.
Prototype of PC :
http://kennethhunt.com/archives/000181.html
""The software is LINUX-based and is being localized
into the Lao language. The equipment consists of a
486-comparable computer with a keyboard, a roller
ball, a LCD screen, and a dot matrix printer in each
village. This equipment is hardened and it is hoped
that it will last for ten years. The computer itself
has no moving parts.
The equipment will be powered by electricity stored in
a car battery charged by foot cranks which are
essentially bicycle wheels and pedals hooked to a
small generator. The generator is connected to a car
battery and the car battery is connected to the
computer. Connection to other computers will be by
radio local area network (LAN). Each village will
connect to one repeater station powered by a solar
means on the ridge near the river valley. That station
will then send the radio signal to the microwave tower
nearby and eventually to a server in Vientiane that
will connect the villages to the Internet.""
http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/1454991
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