1. Green Wi-Fi
By: Ashley Previs

2. Solar- Powered Wifi a Gift
to Senegal; Green
Nonprofit Works to Bring
Laptops to Remote Villages
By: Deborah Gage
San Francisco Chronicle

3. What is Green Wi-Fi?
Bruce Baikie: Founder
Goal: Is to bring
internet to
schoolchildren in small
remote villages around
the world
Developing Solar-
powered, wireless
antennas for laptop

4. Prototype

5. Joining Forces
OLPC (One Laptop
Per Child)
Inveneo
San Francisco High
Schools: Drew School
and Lick - Wilmerding
High School

6. Internet will further education in remote areas and
increase productivity in developing countries
Bridge Digital Divide

7. Problems
Transportation Security
Administration
Senegal Customs
Increased number of
students in

8. New/Current Projects
September 24, 2008-
Green Wi-Fi comes to
Gambia

9. Discussion Questions
Do you agree that by providing countries with new
technology it will help better their economy?
Do you think you will be affected if children in remote
areas now have access to the internet?
Will internet in developing countries create security
concerns in their country or others?

10. Citations
Gage, Deborah. “Solar-powered Wi-Fi a gift to Senegal; Green non-profit works to
bring laptops to remote village” San Francisco Chronicle. 16 August. 2008
Green Wi-Fi. http://www.green-wifi.org/
“Project Delivery” C&H Industrial. www.candh-industrial.com/.../shaking%
20hands.jpg
“Digital Divide” Wikimedia Commons.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
commons/archive/b/bd/20080910182710!Global_Digital_Divide1.png
“Enjoying Life in the Mission Field. ”http://adamsamigos.net/daniel/missionlife/
1909.jpg
Dunn, Nora “Hitching a Ride on an Airplane.” Wisebread. 7 September. 2007 http://
www.wisebread.com/files/fruganomics/imagecache/blog_image_full/files/#uganomics/
blog-images/airplane.JPG