Internet Offline: Inisiatif Lain di Dunia
Initiatives
EduAir
EduAir (Formerly Kwiizi) from Cameroon is the concept name to offer a better education via digital with or without the internet. Their work focuses on the design of portable and open media libraries in the form of Boxes with solar energy giving access to millions of educational content and offering an integrated communication system where learners can make video calls within the local network deployed by the Box http://www.eduair.org [www.eduair.org]
Project Tawasol Tunisia
IEEE Sight in Tunisia developed Raspberry Pi operated devices with hard disks that can be updated periodically with relevant content such as Wikipedia pages, TED Talks and other educational content from the Internet. They are capable of automatically updating content when connected to Wi-Fi or 3G networks. 1worldconnected.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Project-Tawasol-Tunisia.pdf [1worldconnected.org]
ICT Centre Uganda
https://sites.google.com/site/ictcentreuganda/markets
Technology
Low Quality Mobile Video
In developing countries, many would-be mobile internet users perceive downloadable video content as too expensive. Aggressively degrading this video could reduce its file size and therefore its cost. The studies presented here explore extreme cases of this quality/cost trade-off for mobile phone users in urban India. A series of online studies tested the effects of manipulating a video’s content, bit rate, frame rate, and audio quality on quality ratings and enjoyment. Results show that video quality and thus file size can be greatly reduced with relatively little decrease in these outcomes. A field experiment with low-income users in urban India explored consumers’ choices when presented with a trade-off between video quantity and quality and found that nearly one-third selected a lower quality video for the benefit of more video content. Results suggest that offering lower-quality videos to bandwidth-constrained users could provide monetary savings with only minimal reduction in consumer satisfaction. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Oeldorf-Hirsch-NordiCHI2012-LowQualityMobileVideo.pdf [www.microsoft.com]
SolarSpell
SolarSpell - Library powered by Raspberry Pi, with Wifi access point http://solarspell.org/ [solarspell.org]
Kiwix
Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org/ [www.kiwix.org]) Kiwix is a free app that allows you to search and read Wikipedia without an Internet connection. Available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux.
BluePoint
BluePoint Integrated content delivery through meshwifi/GSM/bluetooth... including offline environments http://bluepoint.org [bluepoint.org]