I was thinking in very general terms ref Wsis forum 2021 session 3 highlevel track bridging the digital divide. A call to use whatever tech to get to the last mile connected. They also want a special working group on last mile connectivity.For some countries they only relatively recently got land lines themselves, although many have skipped up to mobile phones ...for covid 19 people were using land line for telehealth.
I was wondering in general how the land phone could be used to educate plus. Just talking about it I hope will give local areas ideas....it would be nice to have a collection of simple easy to implement ideas in a tool kit....using ewaste would be a plus ....
Many thanks Amali
On Monday, 14 June 2021, <
quiliro@riseup.net> wrote:
quiliro@riseup.net writes:
> Connecting with real-time video can requires as little as 300 kilobits
> each (per) second (300 kbps or 300 kb/s or 0.3 Mb/s). Real-time audio
> requires less (as low as 14 kilobits each second).
This would mean that if they have 500 Mb/s connection, it would be more
than enough for a celular-phone-sized video conference.
Which are your use-cases? Are there people with landlines who do not
have and want internet connections? What are the telephone rates?
Which is the minimum wage? If you can provide the above data, I can
make a quick analysis of the viability.
Other solutions are setting up community copper-cable or fiber-optic
networks. These are very reliable and can be another solution. Each
community can connect with another and by that way everyone is
connected. This network can even be connected to the main global
network if you want global connectivity for all.
Amali: Just imagine a giant network of water carrying ducts. It might
be something useful, if it helps uncover the possibilities.
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Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.CPA,CMA