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SMS Servers Replacing PCs in India
Amazing use of mobiles for servers when computers failed. Cutting down the cost of projects by $22,000 and making the project more effective - this weather proof solution has been a breakthrough.
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Was digging info on the impact of technology and found another article on this subject
http://www.ekgaon.com/liberation_media
Mobiles are a very powerful medium and in some cases leaving computers behind! :)
I liked this post and I do also think that mobile applications have a big market, because it is very easy to use. But the title of post is little confusing, because here mobiles are just enabling the communication and they have a server PC with sms gateway. I think PCs and mobiles are for different applications and Mobiles cant replace PCs nor the vice-versa.
I wonder what is happening to OLPC now, if do you get any cheap laptops for 10K and all.
Ekgaon is founded by Tapan Parikh, who won the TR35 Humanitarian of the Year award for his work on this
http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=Tapan_parikh_MIT_Technology_Reviews_T...
Currently a professor at the SIMS school at Berkeley, their group is doing some good development related research.
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh/
The above project (Warana unwired) is a work of the group at Microsoft research's Technology for emerging markets (TEM) group.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/tem
They are working on many interesting projects including the
http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=The_Digital_StudyHall
And Sean Blagsvedt (one of the people working on Warana Unwired) founded Babajob.com - a network to help the poor find low skilled jobs like plumbers, cook, driver etc
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/technology/30poor.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&o...
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