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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

TIER: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions

TIER: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions has an interesting concept of Device/Infrastructure Co-Design. It isn't enough to just deliver devices, you need secure and reliable data centers, and importantly you need proxies (or base stations) that are only intermittently connected. In thinking about how to deploy OLPC to many of the smaller islands of the Philippines, or even some of the upland communities, we may need a serious proxy tier. For example data could be intermittently uploaded by a regularly passing banca (outrigger boat). One dimension that needs to be addressed is the human capital to support device-proxy-infrastructure.

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