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

Tue Jan 27 17:40:25 UTC 2009

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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