What Google Should Do In Africa – Preface

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This is an introduction to a series of posts on what I think Google ought to be doing in Africa,  that is to say what I think they ought to be [...]

Dabba: Open Source Components – Access Node

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Dabba relies on a variety of Open Source software application to enable their network. Here is a profile of some of those applications.

Wireless Access Point

Every local connection starts with a wireless access point (AP) that connects phones and computers alike to the Dabba network. [...]

Theory of Change: The Village Telco

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Having funded and watched and occasionally participated in the wireless hacker space in Africa for the last few years, I have the sense of “waiting for the next leap forward”. Wireless hackers have been successfully building cantennas, woktennas, and waterbottletennas, to name a few. [...]