[wsfii-discuss] [Rising Voices] Wimax and Wifi

Wed Feb 4 09:48:12 UTC 2009

I think a great contact for Paul in Zambia would be LinkNet (www.link.net.zm),
a very committed local cooperative organization promoting mesh network
Internet access as a step towards holistic development in rural communities.
LinkNet is based in Macha - about 70km from Choma, between Lusaka and
Livingstone

Among other things, they design, implement and manage quite large wifi mesh
networks based on Open WRT using Linksys equipment, and they're very good at
it.
I suggest Paul get in touch with Gertjan van Stam <
gertjan.vanstam at link.net.zm>, and consider visiting Macha to learn about
low-cost, reliable solutions for Internet access.

By the way, in Macha they also have a community broadcasting project, and
they're interested in both community radio and TV, so I think it would be
very interesting for the Mpika project.

Best,
Ugo

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Some replies inline
>>
>> am marking this to the WSFII list in the hope someone closer to your
>> region will respond
>> am unable to get the wsfii website - so if its up and runnin what is the
>> correct URL
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> ram
>>
>> See replies inline below:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Paul Muwowo <director at dope.org.zm>wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear All,
>>> My name is Paul Muwowo  from Zambia. I am the board chairperson for Mpika
>>> Community Radio and the lad person in the Mpika community wireless project.
>>>
>>> Unicef has funded us for the community Radio Project (Procured all the
>>> studio equipment and not a transmitter). Does anyone have an Idea where we
>>> can source funds for a Transmitter? Even a 200 Watts would do to start with.
>>>
>>> Is anyone out there convearsant with WIMAX? Please send me literacture or
>>> site/Links where I can get more data on Wifi and Wimax for community
>>> Projects.
>>>
>>
>> Not sure about wimax but there are quite a few community wifi projects -
>> some of them in some parts of africa as well
>>
>> check out
>>
>> http://wndw.net/  for a downloadable copy of *Wireless Networking in the
>> Developing World*
>>
>> which is available in spanish, french, arabic, english and maybe on other
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Summit_on_the_Information_Society has
>> information on wifi and wireless projects
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Paul Muwowo
>>> ZAMBIA
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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