| dc.contributor.author | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-13T08:15:49Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-13T08:15:49Z | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/57575 | en_US |
| dc.title | Making the Web world-wide: A project in Laos is giving Internet access to villagers without electric | en_US |
| cg.subject.cta | ICT | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | Making the Web world-wide: A project in Laos is giving Internet access to villagers without electricity, The Economist, September 2002 | en_US |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_US |
| dcterms.audience | Development Practitioners | en_US |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | CTA. 2002. Making the Web world-wide: A project in Laos is giving Internet access to villagers without electric. ICT Update Issue 9. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands | en_US |
| dcterms.description | Making the Web world-wide: A project in Laos is giving Internet access to villagers without electricity, The Economist, September 2002
Villagers in a remote region of Laos that has neither electricity nor telephone connections are being wired up to the Internet. Wireless Internet cards connect each Jhai PC to a solar-powered hilltop relay station which then passes the signals on to a computer in town that is connected to both the Lao phone system (for local calls) and to the Internet. Meanwhile, the Linux-based software that will run the computers is in the final stages of being ´localised´ into Lao by a group of expatriates in America. One thing that the new network will allow villagers to do is decide whether it is worth going to market. Phon Hong, the local market town, is 30 km away, so it is worth knowing the price of rice before you set off to sell some there. Links farther afield may allow decisions about growing crops for foreign markets to be taken more sensibly - and help with bargaining when these are sold. | en_US |
| dcterms.issued | 2002 | en_US |
| dcterms.language | en | en_US |
| dcterms.license | Copyrighted; all rights reserved | en_US |
| dcterms.publisher | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en_US |
| dcterms.type | Magazine Article | en_US |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en_US |
| cg.identifier.url | http://wayback.archive-it.org/3908/20150511084934/http://ictupdate.cta.int/(issue)/9 | en_US |
| cg.place | Wageningen, The Netherlands | en_US |
| cg.coverage.region | South-eastern Asia | en_US |
| cg.coverage.region | Asia | en_US |
| cg.coverage.country | Laos | en_US |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | LA | en_US |
| cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | en_US |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en_US |
| cg.journal | ICT Update | en_US |
| cg.volume | 9 | en_US |
