Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers

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Summary

Provide faster and cheaper Internet access to help protecting and restoring rain forest as well as eliminating digital divide.

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The current satellite network is slow and expensive. By providing a faster and cheaper point-to-point network, it will benefit 155 students and researchers to study, protect, and restore the rain forest. It will also benefits 1000 local villagers who will have internet access.

Activities

Analyze the terrain data to select and design a point-to-point wireless network that bridges Internet access from the city to the rain forest.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,726
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $2,274
Total Funding Goal: $5,000

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Fight global warming and eliminating digital divide by bring Internet access to local villages.

Project Message

CREA's mission: "To protect and restore Panama's natural ecology while safeguarding and nurturing the development needs of local communities "
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Who is Running This Project

Contact

Gilda Garreton ,
Senior Staff Engineer
16 Network Circle
MPK16-160
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
408-4803144
Email:

Project Sponsor

Mai Ho

Organization

Engineers Without Borders - USA
4665 Nautilus Court, Suite 300
Boulder,, CO, 80301
United States
303-772-2723
www.ewb-usa.org

Learn more about Engineers Without Borders - USA and the project team.


Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Panama and can also be found under Technology.

For more information about Panama, read the Human Development Report on Panama or the Wikipedia entry for Panama.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 31, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 24, 2008.

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