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Juliana Rotich on Ushahidi's BRCK portable router. A portable router designed to bring constant internet connectivity to tough locations in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond was presented at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town this week.

Juliana Rotich on Ushahidi's BRCK portable router

The BRCK device from Kenyan technology firm Ushahidi can automatically switch between Ethernet, WiFi and mobile broadband to maintain its connection. It has its own battery with an eight-hour life to cope with power-cuts and intermittent connections, plus a built-in 16 gigabyte hard drive. "There's a gap in the reliability of the infrastructure and this is our answer," said co-founder of Ushahidi Juliana Rotich, speaking to Dezeen after her talk at Design Indaba. For her, creating technology appropriate to the location is crucial: "Why do we use technology designed for London when we are using it in Lagos? " Rotich described the BRCK as "a rugged way to stay connected," adding that their mantra is: "If it works in Africa, it'll work anywhere.

" Afrique du Sud: le Wi-Fi gratuit à partir de boîtes de conserve. Steve Song, un technicien informatique sud-africain, a eu la géniale idée d'utiliser des boîtes de conserve et des routeurs bricolés pour développer un réseau Internet Wi-Fi gratuit.

Afrique du Sud: le Wi-Fi gratuit à partir de boîtes de conserve

Son idée, il l'a mise en place pour permettre aux populations qui n'ont pas accès aux TIC, à cause des lenteurs du gouvernement, de pouvoir faire leur entrée dans l'ère du numérique tant vanté, mais qui jusqu'ici leur restait fictif. Steve Song, un technicien informatique sud-africain, a eu une géniale idée... Steve Song a décidé d'exploiter la technologie Wi-Fi parce qu'elle est sans licence en Afrique du Sud, comme dans de nombreux pays. En effet, parce que leur portée n'est pas très grande, les ondes Wi-Fi ne sont pas assujetties à une règlementation. Les opérateurs n'y voient pas une menace commerciale. Cette innovation permet de connecter désormais des villages entiers à Internet Wi-Fi. UPLIINK AERO, Free Internet for Everyone, Everywhere. UPDATE:Thanks to all our backers.

UPLIINK AERO, Free Internet for Everyone, Everywhere

Click here for Project Updates Dear Project Supporters,Because manufacturing the Aero device is a costly endeavour, we are asking people NOT to purchase the Aero Device at this time, until such time that we have raised an amount closer to our original goal via lower reward levels. If you do in fact decide to order one, please realize that because we will be hand building them, we will only be able to make a best effort attempt to deliver the entire feature set, and we may fall short in one way or another. We have received alot of feedback, and we are modifying our campaign as follows: If we reach funding of 50K we will use it for development of the UPLIINK Browser in the following ways: What is the UPLIINK Aero Device And we have an UPLIINK Mini for when you are on the go.

Our ultimate goal is to make internet acquisition a one-time hardware cost for end users in medium and high population density urban areas. It's configuration free. BRCK - your backup generator for the internet by Ushahidi. Www.brck.com | Twitter: @brcknet Anyone who has worked in the field -- or anyplace far from the world’s most wired urban areas -- knows how hard it can be to get connected and stay online.

BRCK - your backup generator for the internet by Ushahidi

And yet the equipment used to connect in Kenya, or India, or the rest of the developing world is the same as that used in New York and London, even though the conditions are completely different. At Ushahidi, we face this problem all the time. We realized that what we really needed was a smart, rugged device that could connect to the internet any way it could, hop from one network to another, create a hotspot for multiple devices, while plugged in or running on battery power.

The idea behind BRCK is that all kinds of jobs require steady connectivity, even when infrastructure is spotty due to wireless connections that come and go, intermittent power, or devices that can’t share connections. The BRCK is like a backup generator for the internet. Configuration Capabilities of the BRCK Cloud Special Thanks.