The Lokole email benefit to the offline communities;
When a community has no Internet availability or its population cannot individually afford existing Internet data, it will be very difficult for this community to use traditional email sustainably, but condemned to use SMS. As you know, SMS has a limited capacity.
The Lokole is the solution to this problem. The Lokole brings the online email full power to offline use for the unconnected communities in a shareable, affordable and sustainable way. Using the Lokole reduces the cost of data to more than 95%. For instance in the Congo DRC, 100 people can share US$ 0.50 a day to send a hundreds of emails with attachments.
The Lokole creates a shareable local email network in the office, school, or clinics and church facilities without Internet. The Lokole email can also be accessed online such as Internet café.
Internet in a Box
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love to have one myself. I may have to put one together. Just thinking if I had the device and if even only Wikipedia were on it — would save perhaps a small amount of internet traffic? Maybe negligible, but I think if I knew I had a "local cache" of all of Wikipedia I might rely on it more. Then I wonder if there was a way to integrate it with my browsing of the actual internet — perhaps keeping a running fe…
I use Kiwix in my iPad to store all of Wikipedia (with images). It’s a 88gb download. Just the text is smaller at 11gb.
Do you even update it? Like maybe once a year?
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#123Does this solve real people's actual problems? Selling the 32 gig SD card together with an Android app to browse the data seems far better. The majority of the world either has an Android phone (possibly a decade old), or a family member with one. Have the android app available in the app store and the data downloadable for those who occasionally have internet connectivity (for example visiting a big city), but don't…
If you think a smart phone lasts 10 years in the hands of poor people, you are extremely optimistic. From what I can tell, even here in South Africa's townships they are using fairly new Samsung, Huawei etc smart phones (always with a broken screen - this happens without exception), albeit cheap ones. Even my gardener has a Samsung 10 something. Not entirely sure how he can afford it, but I suspect he borrowed a lot…
> always with a broken screen - this happens without exception
Are the devices super-low end? Users underestimate how sensitive they are to breakage? Regularly thrown? Broken units that are usable end up there for export or?
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not entirely sure how he can afford it, but I suspect he borrowed a lot of money to afford it There's a gray/black market for second hand phones whose provenance is...questionable. As someone who involuntarily contributed a phone to this surprisingly international parallel supply chain, the sellers are probably not selling at Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price.
Hell, you don't even need theft to handle most of the supply problem. The MSRP of a 5 year old android phone is effectively $0.
In this case, It's a Galaxy S10, a 2 year old phone that currently retails on Ebay for US$200-US$300.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's an example medical database they could and would want to setup and will IIAB run those services?
It’s literally in the article: > See Mexico's live demo and these medical examples used by clinics in Asia and Africa especially, as hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia).
What is the medical database called?
They have a lot of flat garbage that if you really want you can just put on your phone, I can see those.
A database (For Africa as you mention) is a big deal, it's queryable store of info. It's rare to see these open source (or CC) Does it use MySql? MSAccess? How hard is it to set up?
I don't think they will have any. Databases need to be updated, it's easier to add 4G if they are needed.
Chemwatch did a pretty good setup with CD that did the 3 month updates. In the developed world is still ran into problems with being up to date enough, I think most would be online now. And it cost money because it's a hard thing to do.
You can't just say, they will 'run datavbases on the IIAB' That's an ongoing commitment that needs to be supported. Else it becomes another bricked device in the NGO graveyard.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s literally in the article: > See Mexico's live demo and these medical examples used by clinics in Asia and Africa especially, as hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia).
What is the medical database called? They have a lot of flat garbage that if you really want you can just put on your phone, I can see those. A database (For Africa as you mention) is a big deal, it's queryable store of info. It's rare to see these open source (or CC) Does it use MySql? MSAccess? How hard is it to set up? I don't think they will have any. Databases need to be updated, it's easier to add 4G if they ar…
Are you arguing with me or or the article? I'm not a doctor, I can't review the databases they include.
Have you read the article? It has links.
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#127Wikipedia?! Might as well call it garbage in a box
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#128How do you fit a full wikipedia in 23 languages with images on a 32gb card? +1000 videos?
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#129I tried doing something like this with all of the books hosted on archive.org that are out of copyright. You can see the collection I put together at locserendipity.com.
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#130I'm wondering how successful an intranet throught my apartment complex would be. Guess I'll have to try this out!