Transcript Michael L. Best Leandro Burnes Marco Escobedo Hani Shakeel

eDevelopment
Technologies to empower, enrich and interconnect
Michael L. Best
Leandro Burnes
Marco Escobedo
Hani Shakeel
Projects
Sustainable Access for Rural India
Village Area Network
Agricultural Information System
Community Knowledge Sharing
Telecenter Cost Estimator
SARI
Sustainable Access in Rural India
Connecting thousands of rural poor villages with
innovative technologies, applications, and
business models, and rigorously evaluating the
impact on social and economic development.
With Harvard CID, IIT
Madras, IBCC
Village Area Network
Mobile wireless network for rural communities that
provides information and communication services
to an entire community
Schools
INTERNET
256 Kbps
LINCOS
Container
11 Mbps
City
11 Mbps
Houses
Hall
Rural
Clinic
Implemented in Bohechio,
Dominican Republic
City
Hall
Small
business
AgI
Agricultural Information System
Connecting farmers from rural communities to
markets, to knowledge, and to each other
AgI
Agricultural Information System
• Access to market price
information
• Voice communication
with farmers from other
rural communities
• Supports range of
written literacy levels
• Text representations and machine generated spoken
audio
Community Knowledge Sharing
A multi-literate
environment for
communities to
interact, share
and learn from
each other.
Community Knowledge Sharing
• Multi-literate bulletin board system
• Integrates novel technologies to increase
accessibility
• Customizable to local preferences
• Evaluation conducted in the Dominican Republic
Telecenter Cost Estimator
Explore the impact of alternative telecenter
configurations on capital and ongoing costs
eDevelopment
Technologies to empower, enrich and interconnect
Pilot Project - Bohechio Village Area Network
March of 2001
Michael L. Best
Leandro Burnes
Marco Escobedo
Hani Shakeel
Agenda
• Bohechio, Dominican Republic
• Village Area Network
• Equipment
• Network Coverage
• Results of Deployment
• Immediate Applications
• Future Applications
• What’s Next
• Pictures
•Q&A
Bohechio, Dominican Republic
• Located in the center of the
Dominican Republic.
• Population is approximately
10,000 people.
• Main economic activities are
agriculture and livestock.
• Prior to Wireless Village Area
Network, only 5 telephone lines.
Village Area Network
• 256 kps VSAT connection at Lincos Container.
• Point to Point Link between Lincos and Base Station.
• Omni-directional antennas placed at Base Station.
• Point to Point link to Lincos.
Results of Deployment
Tests conducted with:
• 5dbi and 14dbi Antennas
• Orinoco Client Manager - Link Test Software
Results of Deployment
11
11
Coverage:
• PC Cards ~2dbi Antenna
9
• 5dbi Antenna
8
• 14dbi Yagi Antenna
4
6
3
Site #
1
2
5
7
10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Location
Lincos Front Park
Lincos Container
Police Station
School
Ensanche Castillo
Rural Clinic
Ensanche Castillo
Water Tanks
Lago Sabana (west)
South Bohechio
Bohechio North
River South Bohechio
Road to Bohechio
Dist. (ft)
238
289
322
364
840
945
1050
1522
1575
1575
1837
3517
4252
Immediate Applications
• Lincos, School, Clinic and Municipal Building
Immediate Applications
• IP Telephony
Future Applications
• Mobile VoIP and Radio Bohechio
What’s Next
• School Connectivity - April 2001
• Telecenters
• Better and cheaper antennas - wearable?
• Expand mobility based applications
Pictures
Question and Answer
Contact Information:
• Edevelopment Group
• The Media Laboratory
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Room E15-309
• 20 Ames Street
• Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
• http://edevelopment.media.mit.edu/
SARI - eDevelopment
SARI - Sustainable Access in Rural India
Michael L. Best
Leandro Burnes
Marco Escobedo
Agenda
• Objectives
• Pilot Phase
• Monitoring and
Assessment
• Applications
• Telekiosks
• Network
• Pilot Locations
• What’s Next
• Q &A
Objectives
1.Inventing and deploying innovative technologies, applications, and highly
localized content that lead to economic, medical, learning and social development.
2.Conducting social and economic impact assessment research of these technologies.
3.Testing and generating business models that lead to profit generation and allow
the services and technologies to be self-sustaining.
4.Benefiting from the Network Effect that comes from connecting up a large
number of communities and user, aggregating demand, and integrating markets.
SARI is a project of the MIT Media Lab, Harvard's Center for International
Development, IIT-Madras, and the I-Gyan Foundation.
Pilot Phase
• Internet access and applications
• 1000 connections
• 350 villages in Madurai District in
Indian State of Tamil Nadu.
Applications
• Localized content in local languages
• Agricultural information systems
• Online spot labor and market applications
• Micro-finance systems
• Health systems
• Education applications
• Email and Internet browsing
• Online government forms
• Voice/Video/Data Services
• Integrated communication suites
• Community newsmagazines
• Text to speech tools
• Cricket resource center
Telekiosks
Telekiosks will contain:
• SARI Application Suite
• Desktop PC
• Monitor
• Battery-backup power supply
• Telephone wall unit
• Wireless internet (70 kbps) and phone connection
Suite is priced at $1000 USD per kiosk
Network
Network
• corDECT WLL Access Centre:
•Rural Group Direct Inward Dialing EPABX)
•Interfaces to the network on E1 (2.048 Mbps)
•DIU (DECT Interface Unit)
• Modems, routers, hubs
• Relay Base Stations (RBS)
What’s Next
• 1000 connections
• Northern India
• Continuing research
Questions and Answers
Contact Information:
• Edevelopment Group
• The Media Laboratory
• MIT
• E15-309
• 20 Ames Street
• Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
• http://edevelopment.media.mit.edu/