lift12 conference - village telco
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My talk about telecoms in Africa and the motivation behind Village Telco. The streaming video of the talk can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldd7SIiuJGgTRANSCRIPT
Building a
Robust Telecommunications
Ecology with
Village Telco
Steve SongLIFT12
South AfricaVodacom WirelessCoverage Map
Econet WirelessCoverage Map
Zimbabwe
When access is expensive, it’s hard to learn to play the game
Resilience
TelephoneInfrastructure
InternetInfrastructure
SuperComputing
SuperfluousComputing
United States
Uganda
Ethiopia
The Unlicensed Ecosystem
Growth of WiFi
Source: Daily Wireless – www.dailywireless.org/2012/02/08/hotspot-2-0/
HackingHardware
ASimple
Idea
WirelessAccessPoint
AnalogueTelephonyAdaptorfor ordinary phones
Co
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pt
Pro
toty
pe
Bet
a
Pro
du
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Not Your Average Wifi DeviceOutdoor ReadyWeatherisedUV ProtectedSealed UnitTough
Capable of surviving line spike, brownouts, power surges.
FlexibleAccepts 9-40VCan be powered via phone or data line
Mesh Potato Installation
ISP
Lemi SoaresDiliTimor Leste
East Timor
Wayne AbroueGriqua CommunitySouth Africa
Rael LissoosJohannesburgSouth Africa
Plans for 2012
Mesh Potato 2.0Open SourceOpen
HardwareFasterCheaper
A Parting Thought...
But only if we act together…
How to get involved
If you’re a developer, engineer, or entrepreneur, or just interested, please join us in the Village Telco development community at
http://bit.ly/vt-community
If you would like to support a Village Telco directly, please get in touch:[email protected] @stevesong
http://villagetelco.orgtwitter @villagetelco
Google Server by NiallKennedyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/102932643BY NC
IBM Blue Gene by Argonne National Libraryhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/argonne/3334947628BY SA
Telephone Box by Vissagohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/vissago/4249091962/BY NC
Telephone Line by fernandohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ernando/522949553/BY SA
Blackjack by Shannon Khttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonmary/3040998286/BY SA ND
Weakest Linkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jayvando707/6843918403/All Rights Reserved - Re-used by permission
Rael Lissoos by edysonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/2340944921/BY NC
Antenna Setup by Razvan Calimanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/tsk/2760922792/#BY
Fibre Optic Sensors by PNNLhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pnnl/3638446385/BY NC SA
Scaffolding in Addis Ababa Courtesy Owen Barderhttp://www.owen.org
Reserved ParkingLicensed from iStockPhotohttp://www.istockphoto.com
Other photos CC BY SA Village Telco
Image Credits