Here’s the feel-good tech story of the day: Ex-Silicon Valley execs have banded together to bring Internet access, VoIP, e-mail and voice mail to remote African villages – all without a power infrastructure.
That certainly trumps their ex-coworkers who opened wineries.
Red Herring looks at the work of Inveneo, a nonprofit that’s bringing 21st century technology to rural Africa via pedal power. Inveneo has created a bike that when pedaled powers an open-source system to run the technology. Another score for Linux, the humanitarian OS.
This is what lazy, IM-addicted American teens need: Want to stay online all night? Start pedaling, kid.
Via Red Herring
