05 Feb 2009 No Comments
Mobile Internet Access, Web 3.0?
As a small internet company, we pay attention to what’s going on in Web 2.0 and how people use the web to raise money and awareness online for causes they care about. We’re excited about the potential for the internet to connect people and facilitate real change at low cost.
This story about a mobile internet center in Tunisia caught our eye today. Given the tourism industry, a luxury coach bus is not an uncommon sight in Tunisia. But this one isn’t carrying tourists:
This bus has been transformed into a mobile internet centre, and it travels around Tunisia teaching students of all ages how to log on, surf the net, and obtain information electronically that can help them in their studies and in finding jobs.
Mobile internet buses travel to remote villages to connect rural communities where the costs of setting up infrastructure (including electricity, for example) for internet access would be very high.
And we thought Wi-Fi on the bus between Boston and New York was forward-thinking.
