Wi-Fi-hopping brings phone signal to remote villages

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2923, 2013, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • But nearly half the population in rural Africa cannot access to access crop and weather information because of a lack of local infrastructure. To help fix this, a team led by Elizabeth Belding at the University of California in Santa Barbara, designed a cheap, local cellular network called Kwiizya--which means "to chat" in Tonga, the native language in Zambia's Southern Province. The idea is to give a strong signal to villages which have poor, or even non-existent, coverage.