Wi-Fi as a Last Mile Access Technology and The Tragedy of the Commons

Brandt, Ingrid; Terzoli, Alfredo; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl

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“…The tests showed that surrounding schools would be able to share a connection of 4 Mbps via a repeater (Whittington, 2003). A network was installed and soon required an upgrade because of radio interference from other WiFi networks which had sprung up in town, despite an upgrade (Brandt et al, 2007). It was time to move to something new.…”

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Research Testbed Networks: Practical Tools for Service Delivery?

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Abstract:The Telkom Centre of Excellence (CoE) at Rhodes University, housed in the Computer Science department was opened in 1997. The CoE's focus on Distributed multimedia service platforms soon showed that the technology being researched could be applied in the disadvantaged peri-urban communities. The CoE has thus concentrated its research on building a testbed network that delivers real services to real users. In 2007, the testbed was extended to include a marginalised rural area in the Siyakhula Living Lab. The greatest factor in the sustainability of the CoE testbed network has been maintaining usefulness to all the stakeholders over the last 12 years. Industrial funding, University outreach goals and research goals could all be harmonised, while sustaining the delivery of high quality informatics services in the community. This paper presents a brief case study of the communications network testbed and how it was applied to the Development Informatics space. It analyses the roles played by stakeholders in either assisting and sustaining or obstructing the service delivery. It makes key recommendations on best practices for research networks that can also bring informatics to disadvantaged communities. It shows how testbeds for the research of new technologies can be designed so as to allow Development Informatics work to take place on such networks.

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“…One of the aims has been the identification of solutions that would be affordable and sustainable for previously disadvantaged schools. This research has included Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) type connections [4,6], WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g) connections [4,7,8], and WiMAX (IEEE 802.16a) connections [9,10], all with promising results. In the Grahamstown district in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the Telkom CoE has built a local loop network which connects schools in the area to one another and shared resources and consists of these multiple technologies.…”

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The development of ICT networks for South African schools

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Abstract. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly considered valuable tools in education, promoting the development of higher cognitive processes and allowing teachers and learners access to a plethora of information. This paper reports on two pilot studies conducted in South Africa in proto-typical previously disadvantaged schools and their surrounding communities. Each pilot study deployed a local loop network within impoverished communities, connecting schools to one another and central services such as email and voice communications. The benefits of these networks were that teachers, learners and the local community had access to information, and communication and collaboration channels, providing potential test beds for investigating the use of computers as mind tools.

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Wi-Fi as a Last Mile Access Technology and The Tragedy of the Commons

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Research Testbed Networks: Practical Tools for Service Delivery?

Research Testbed Networks: Practical Tools for Service Delivery?

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