Low Cost Community Networking in Africa (Language: English)
The combination of wireless networking in unlicensed spectrum, open source software and sustainable energy offers exciting new perspectives for networking in underserviced communities. Low cost approaches bring internet as well as local connectivity and telephone services to people. Especially the concept of mesh networking proves to be powerful in shared community networks. This talk will present projects and capacity building programms from all over Africa, among others Tanzania and South Africa.



Sebastian Büttrich
wire.less.dk / IT University Copenhagen, Denmark / Network Startup Resource Center, University of Oregon
Sebastian Büttrich works with:

(low cost) wireless technology

free / open source software and

solar and wind energy, building networks, systems, skills and capacity within the areas above, as manager, developer, architect, consultant and teacher.
This work is focussed on (but not limited to) developing and underprivileged countries and communities, especially in Africa / Asia.
Sebastians academic background is in quantum physics, optics, radio spectroscopy and scientific programming. He holds a Ph.d. in physics.
Recent projects: Tanzania, Nepal, Fiji, Maldives, Kenya