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Green Wi-FiBy: Ashley Previs
Solar- Powered Wifi a Gift to Senegal; Green
Nonprofit Works to Bring Laptops to Remote Villages
By: Deborah GageSan Francisco Chronicle
What is Green Wi-Fi?Bruce Baikie: Founder
Goal: Is to bring internet to schoolchildren in small remote villages around the world
Developing Solar-powered, wireless antennas for laptop
Prototype
Joining Forces
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
Inveneo
San Francisco High Schools: Drew School and Lick - Wilmerding High School
Internet will further education in remote areas and increase productivity in developing countries
Bridge Digital Divide
Problems
Transportation Security Administration
Senegal Customs
Increased number of students in
New/Current Projects
September 24, 2008- Green Wi-Fi comes to Gambia
Discussion Questions
Do you agree that by providing countries with new technology it will help better their economy?
Do you think you will be affected if children in remote areas now have access to the internet?
Will internet in developing countries create security concerns in their country or others?
CitationsGage, Deborah. “Solar-powered Wi-Fi a gift to Senegal; Green non-profit works to bring laptops to remote village” San Francisco Chronicle. 16 August. 2008
Green Wi-Fi. http://www.green-wifi.org/
“Project Delivery” C&H Industrial. www.candh-industrial.com/.../shaking%20hands.jpg
“Digital Divide” Wikimedia Commons.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/b/bd/20080910182710!Global_Digital_Divide1.png
“Enjoying Life in the Mission Field. ”http://adamsamigos.net/daniel/missionlife/1909.jpg
Dunn, Nora “Hitching a Ride on an Airplane.” Wisebread. 7 September. 2007 http://www.wisebread.com/files/fruganomics/imagecache/blog_image_full/files/#uganomics/blog-images/airplane.JPG