Green Wi-FiBy: Ashley Previs

Solar- Powered Wifi a Gift to Senegal; Green

Nonprofit Works to Bring Laptops to Remote Villages

By: Deborah GageSan Francisco Chronicle

What is Green Wi-Fi?Bruce Baikie: Founder

Goal: Is to bring internet to schoolchildren in small remote villages around the world

Developing Solar-powered, wireless antennas for laptop

Prototype

Joining Forces

OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)

Inveneo

San Francisco High Schools: Drew School and Lick - Wilmerding High School

Internet will further education in remote areas and increase productivity in developing countries

Bridge Digital Divide

Problems

Transportation Security Administration

Senegal Customs

Increased number of students in

New/Current Projects

September 24, 2008- Green Wi-Fi comes to Gambia

Discussion Questions

Do you agree that by providing countries with new technology it will help better their economy?

Do you think you will be affected if children in remote areas now have access to the internet?

Will internet in developing countries create security concerns in their country or others?

CitationsGage, Deborah. “Solar-powered Wi-Fi a gift to Senegal; Green non-profit works to bring laptops to remote village” San Francisco Chronicle. 16 August. 2008

Green Wi-Fi. http://www.green-wifi.org/

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“Digital Divide” Wikimedia Commons.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/b/bd/20080910182710!Global_Digital_Divide1.png

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