[Grassroots-l] [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

[Sean DALY]

Very interesting!

I saw this too:
http://blog.wizzy.com/post/OLPC-and-Classmate-in-Nigeria

The wizzydigital.org website seems dated, is it an active project?

I couldn't find any technical information about the solution, although
it seems to be based on FOSS

Sean



On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Frederick Grose<fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to the community...
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: William Schaub
> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
> Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
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> This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and
> sugar labs etc.
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> http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html
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> using UUCP and memory sticks and couriers they are able to connect schools
> to the internet in areas where there is ZERO connectivity.
> ...
> However this whizzy digital courrier could be VERY successfully used on a
> classroom server or a specially outfitted XO laptop with some extra storage
> via an added USB storage device.
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