Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers

by Engineers Without Borders - USA
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers
Eliminate Digital Divide for Panamanian Villagers

Summary

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

$2,886
total raised
51
donors
0
monthly donors
17
years

Challenge

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.

Solution

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.

Long-Term Impact

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

Additional Documentation

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

Resources

Organization Information

Engineers Without Borders - USA

Location: Boulder,, CO, - USA
Website:
Project Leader:
Gilda Garreton
Senior Staff Engineer
Menlo Park , CA United States

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