Infrastructure is a major issue any ICT enabling effort - be it the
Simputer, Village Internet, WiFi... but greatly underestimated.
Whereas about every hamlet in your command area may even have an educated,
computer-aware if not entirely PC-literate person as your potential user, the supporting utilities such as transmitting-receiving networks, land-lines and, basic to all these - reliable mains power at a reasonable voltage - are often insufficient if not absent, while the local administration and official figures may point otherwise.
Therefore, any ICT enabling programme needs to work on a two-pronged approach: To liaise with the local administration (communications and energy are mostly government owned or controlled) and pursue the progress of local electrification and comm networks, at the same time planning a supporting ICE programme, to the extent of your aims.
Seeking partnerships with such developmental bodies including NGOs, the microPower initiative modestly envisions the independence of a working class rural / urban fringe family rom public utilities for its most basic energy, information and communication needs.
First, microPower offers autonomous power solutions for the rural / semi-urban beneficiary and will soon follow this up with OEMs in the ICT sector with appropriate built-in solar power and energy storage devices.
A data sheet on microPower solar photovoltaic battery chargers is available on request.
An associate, Net Radiophony Pvt Ltd www.radiophony.com meets
requisite technology and equipment needs - ranging from Wi Fi and software to
commissioning accessories and services, so as to provide whole and
appropriate systems. The website gives more information.
For enquiries:
The microPower Initiative
c/o Udit Chaudhuri
Unika Enterprises
e-mail: uditnc@gmail.com
Tel - Fax: +91-22-26045595
Regards
Udit Chaudhuri
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