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The missing piece in the technology puzzle for rural education is broadband satellite internet. Iridium Network's bandwidth will be able to support HD video and
by ArtWomb 8y ago
The missing piece in the technology puzzle for rural education is broadband satellite internet. Iridium Network's bandwidth will be able to support HD video and rich internet applications. The key difference: every student, teacher and indeed every member of the village community will be able to use their connections in parallel. Rather than one person at a time or each sharing a single conn. Low-power, low cost ARM based hardware running linux or chromeOS, especially in networked appliance configurations for classrooms, could become standard. We'll witness a ton of emerging user scenarios: live video teaching, IoT, telemedicine. The future is already here. And it is about to get distributed everywhere ;)
- amrx431 8y agoYes and No. What I see as more critical is the lack of capital. The public money in poorer country is highly contested amongst immediate welfare policies(like preventing child birth death etc), corrupt system and policies where the benefits would be observed not immediately but say a couple of years.
- veddox 8y agoHave you had any experience with computers in a school setting? It's all most school in Germany can do to keep their computer infrastructure up and running. Never mind rural Africa! Setting up and operating such a network requires some serious know-how - know-how that pretty much nobody in your scenario is going to have. And never mind the practical problems of running computers in a rural setting (see my post above).