Solar Wi-Fi To Bring Net to Developing Countries

TreeHugger.com has an article today on a new wifi development organization: MIT and the UN have teamed up to provide kids living in the world's least developed nations $100 laptops, their 2 watts of juice provided by hand or foot crank. Cool, but - and this was one of Bill Gates' criticisms - what's a computer without internet access? Enter Green Wi-Fi, a non-profit that seeks to provide 'last mile internet access with nothing more than a single broadband internet connection, rooftops and the sun.' Their wi-fi access nodes, which consist of a small solar panel, a heavy-duty battery, and a router, can be linked together to extend one internet connection into a larger network. The two guys who started the company - Bruce Baikie and Marc Pomerleau - happen to be veterans of Sun Microsystems. Deployment is set to start in India at the end of this summer.

Pidgin is a cross-client platform so shouldn't you be asking which platforms you like best.Miranda - supports all of the stand-alone clients, iwc easy, great documentation, doesn't require me to create an account on some server elsewhere, uses very little memory and is extremely fast, requires no installation. Your opinion is my opinion, brother you too much bad now!

wii is also a great competition

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Solar technology isn't cheap though? How cost effective would this be?