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Aug. 1, 2011 - Aug. 31, 2011
The Internet Society has awarded a grant to a partnered project that will bring Internet connectivity to Lascahobas, Haiti, in August 2011. The partners in this project are: Green WiFi, Illinois Institute of Technology, OLPC Haiti, and Inveneo.
The schools in the village of Lascahobas are part of a One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project in Haiti. At present, the schools lack two key conditions for realizing project success: electricity and Internet connectivity. The “IIT Empowering Haiti” team has been working with OLPC Haiti, under the mentorship of Green WiFi, to design and implement a solar powering solution so that the laptops may be charged at the schools. The Internet Society Grant will enable an after-school cyber-learning center and two primary schools to be connected to the Internet, through a long-distance wi-fi link that originates in Mirebalais, where Inveneo launched its training of local technicians in March, 2011 as part of Haiti’s Rural Broadband Connectivity Program.
The solar powered WiFi used in this project will be approached and documented as a repeatable model for the other +40 schools in Haiti that will receive the 14,000 OLPC XO the Haiti OLPC office is rolling out.
Pictured Above: Ecole St. Gabriel, Ecole Baptiste, and the Computer-Learning Center, Lascahobas |
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