[IgorPartola]

Thanks for the Mesh Potato mention. I haven't seen this project before but am very interested in stuff like this. My question is: what would happen if we overnight got an entire country wired? What kind of social, political and economic consequences would that have? I'm not thinking of the US, which already has a decent infrastructure, even if we want it to be better/faster/more neutral. I am thinking of African countries, a market largely underexposed to the internet. I suppose I can picture a startup trying to do this. Just think how many more Facebook users there could be...

[mctavjb9]

Here are some suggestions for further reading: http://www.villagetelco.org

Steve Song's blog (Telecommunications Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation): http://manypossibilities.net/

http://openmobile.futuretext.com/

There was an article in Linux Journal last December that includes more technical details on the Mesh Potato.

[IgorPartola]

Thank you very much.