KAFAL - Offline Internet Servers for Rural Nepal

1. Offline Internet Servers for Rural Nepal
काफल

2. In 60 Seconds
Problem: Digital isolation of villages
(20 mln Nepali / 65 out of 100)
Solution: Raspberry Pi 2 + travelling pen drives + smartphones
= offline Internet
Effects:
● education
● communication
● participation
● identity preservation
● better resilience

3. Problem: Digital Isolation of Villages
● no access to innovative post-quake architecture
● little news coverage of earthquake stories from villages
● no participation in accountability initiatives
● no collaboration with national innovation networks
● very little national / intl citizen journalism by villagers

4. Creative Solutions Wanted
Never underestimate
the bandwidth of a
doko full of pen drives
Digital isolation?
Just connect the people to the Internet …
BUT THERE IS NO INTERNET IN THE
VILLAGE.
Oops :-)
Then … let’s give them travelling pen
drives. With lots of useful and free content.
We just
invented
Offline
Internet :-)

5. Functionally:
smartphones
+ Raspberry Pi
+ wifi module
+ USB pen drives
+ RACHEL-Pi and other libraries
+ authoring tools (NEW)
+ two-way sync software(NEW)
+ Nepali content (NEW)
How to get it done? (1)
Technically: Ah well. Add a
rugged case and PV panel.

6. Environmentally:
● long lasting
● no consumable materials
● low energy (3 W for server, mW to play audio)
● easily powered by sustainable energy (PV)
How to get it done? (2)
Financially: A server is cheap
($100/village) and lasts long
(10++ years).

7. Culturally: All cultures have education and dialogue spaces.
But they differ.
So let’s include:
How to get it done? (3)
● user-generated content
● different media
(text, audio, video)
● different languages

8. Impacts (1): Better Reconstruction
Knowledge: educate yourself from
gigabytes of appropriate knowledge
Communication: share your knowledge
Collaboration: innovate together
Business: improve sustainability, efficiency
and earnings

9. ● increase tourism via online village media
● preservation of cultural identity & heritage
● improved resilience
● improved disaster preparedness and response skills
● innovation culture and startup movement in villages?
Impacts (2): Culture & Society

10. Impacts (3): Context
Time scale? short-term reconstruction infos → resilience skills
Target area?
● Damaged villages in Nepal with no Internet.
● Then other villages with no / slow Internet.
Scale?
4 400 000 000 people
have no Internet access.

11. Questions?
Enjoy Kafal

12. Questions?
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