KioskNet is a system, developed at the University of Waterloo, to provide very low cost Internet access to rural villages in developing countries, based on the concept of delay-tolerant networking. It uses vehicles, such as buses, to ferry data between village kiosks and Internet gateways in nearby urban centers. The data is re-assembled at a Proxy Server for interaction with legacy servers.1 The system is free and open source.
A video describing the KioskNet system can be found here, or is available on YouTube here.
References
References
- The KioskNet project web page Archived January 11, 2001, at the Wayback Machine