[Olpc-open] Re: [OLPC Security] Application bundles and delegation

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

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> There you run up against the limitations of school servers and
> external bandwidth, either of which imposes much greater costs. School
> servers will need to be replaced at three or four year intervals, in
> any case, regardless of their size and capabilities.
>
> Bandwidth in developing countries is primarily a political issue,
> since incumbent monopoly telcos don't want to cannibalize their
> primary revenue streams. Even Voice over IP is illegal in Nigeria,
> Bangladesh, and elsewhere.
>
> The regulatory and competitive environment will change over time, but
> currently a 128 Kbps satellite connection in rural Nigeria goes for
> more than $1700/month. There is no hope of getting a copper landline
> connection in many of these areas; the copper wire would be stolen as
> soon as it was installed, as happened in Iraq immediately after the US
> invasion. So we have to look at WiMax and other wireless technologies.
> It will take several years to work all of this out technically,
> organizationally, and financially, even after local licensing can be
> managed.
>


We have to challenge  all that problems here in Colombia too, but OLPC cant
solve all this ..that is our job appropriate and integrate the technology
for  don't have the necessity of depending on  multinational technological
monopolies, thats the only way out of poverty..be technologically
independent

I think that OLPC could be a way to begin this path.

-- 
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
OLPC Colombia
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia
Grupo de robotica libre DROz
http://www.el-directorio.org/DrozConfluence
http://el-directorio.org
El sitio de software Libre en Colombia
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