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Rural telephony: VoIP in the wilderness by Dada, John

“…With no fixed-line service and mobile phone operators reluctant to invest in rural areas, the Fantsuam Foundation decided to provide VoIP to customers on its wireless network in northern Nigeria.…”
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Wi-Fi: Spreading from the centre by Atkinson, John, Boateng, Ebenezer, Amoah, Gideon K.

“…From a small initial investment of their own money, a group of volunteers in Ghana has managed to build a wireless network spanning 20 km. Local farmers and schoolchildren have already benefited from this very inventive system.…”
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Laos: Jhai Foundation's Remote IT Village project by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Jhai Foundation´s Remote IT Village project has developed a solid-state, low-wattage computer that can be powered by a foot-crank and batteries, a high-bandwidth wireless network, to support village microenterprises.…”
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India: Information Village Research Project (MS Swaminathan Research Foundation) by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Ten villages in Tamil Nadu have been connected using a hybrid wired and wireless network of PCs, phones, VHF duplex radio devices and email through dial-up telepho…”
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PEACH: predicting frost events in peach orchards using IoT technology by Watteyne, Thomas, Diedrichs, Ana Laura, Brun-Laguna, Keoma, Chaar, Javier Emilio, Dujovne, Diego, Taffernaberry, Juan Carlos, Mercado, Gustavo

“…This article provides an in-depth description of a complete solution we designed and deployed: the low-power wireless network and the back-end system. The low-power wireless network is composed entirely of commercial off-the-shelf devices. …”
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NonCropShare coordination game by Bell, Andrew, Zhang, Wei, Bianchi, Felix, van der Werf, Wopke

“…This version of NonCropShare is intended to be used on a set of Windows-8 tablets, linked across a wireless network. The program currently features two interfaces: the Master and the Enumerator. …”
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Internet without wires by Tothill, Ann

“…African communities without access to the internet are being trained to build their own wireless networks, thanks to a project launched by the South-Africa-based NGO, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)...…”
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