In this year's Global Ideas Book, we cover one idea about rickshaws bringing phone access to rural districts which lack landlines, or the financial capacity to buy a mobiles, something which afflicts large parts of, for example, the Indian population.
Now, a new project is taking it the next (logical) step: rickshaw internet access. This CNN article describes the Infothela project which is using a wireless network (which is more reliable than the native landline network) to connect villagers and bring them opportunities and services which were previously out of their reach. I love this kind of project, but always have the question about how much benefit simple access brings, but this seems to have the back-end and support to make it truly worthwhile. Check it out.
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