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Comment Connecting Those Who Need IT Most (Score 1) 108

by weaselville on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @05:57AM (#31242374) Attached to: NGO Networks In Haiti Cause Problems For ISPs

Inveneo certainly does involve local service providers in their work. In fact, that is what they are all about. I recommend that you have a look at their interesting business model.

P.S. Their "How to Deploy Long-Distance WiFi in Haiti" is a very informative read for the radio geeks among us.

P.P.S. I am a former Inveneo employee.

Comment Inveneo.org (Score 1) 100

by weaselville on Friday January 15, 2010 @03:58PM (#30782982) Attached to: Tech NGOs Working In Haiti

Inveneo.org is preparing to send a team, whose mission is to set up long-shot WiFi links, and put down solar-powered computer workstations as network nodes. That is all the information I have at the moment: visit their site at Inveneo.org. -jw

Tech NGOs Working In Haiti 100

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 15, 2010 @11:12AM from the from-the-ground-up dept.

d5w writes "There are a thousand and one NGOs responding in some way to the disaster in Haiti, but the necessary infrastructure is usually overlooked when people give charity donations. In fact, some popular donation sites actively downgrade charities for spending on infrastructure. Here are two organizations responding in Haiti, though, that have a purely tech infrastructure focus: Télécoms Sans Frontières brings mobile telecom rigs and satellite phones to disaster sites, making sure that responders on the ground can communicate with each other and that individuals can contact families abroad; here's an eWeek story about TSF. MapAction sends experienced GIS people and GPS equipment to provide up-to-date mapping, which is important when the landscape has just changed drastically. Any others?"

Comment Re:Donate to a school or charity (Score 1) 546

by weaselville on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @06:01PM (#27141719) Attached to: What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?

Inveneo.org takes donated thumb drives and sends them to students in Africa: http://www.inveneo.org/?q=Thumbdrive

Comment Heard of Inveneo? (Score 1) 252

by weaselville on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @02:10AM (#26525641) Attached to: Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs

Not only a service to humanity, you could also have a lot of FUN volunteering for Inveneo. Their mission is to bring cool and useful IT technology to sub-Saharan Africa. Can you set up a multi-kilometer wifi link? Or work on a field hardened Linux distro that runs on 20W desktop machines? They tackle a spectrum of fascinating projects and regularly send team members to perform installations in rural African villages and meet with government ministers. Have a look at their website and get in touch with them! - Jim Wiggins

Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 01, 2008 @05:39PM from the leave-only-memories-take-only-footprints dept.

A refrigerator-sized tank of toxic ammonia, tossed from the international space station last year, is expected to hit earth tomorrow afternoon or evening. The 1,400-pound object was deliberately jettisoned — by hand — from the ISS's robot arm in July 2007. Since the time of re-entry is uncertain, so is the location. "NASA expects up to 15 pieces of the tank to survive the searing hot temperatures of re-entry, ranging in size from about 1.4 ounces (40 grams) to nearly 40 pounds (17.5 kilograms). ... [T]he largest pieces could slam into the Earth's surface at about 100 mph (161 kph). ...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."

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