The Interactive Technologies Institute of Madeira (MITI) is developing a project for UNICEF, which is a technical and social platform that unites communities in Uganda, using a telephone, a bucket and solar panels.
“It’s basically a community radio system, which uses Android, technology made in a bucket, with solar panels, installed an antenna 15 meters and for adding the areas of communities remote in touch, “said Nuno Nunes, president of MITI.
The project aims to give Ugandan communities a mix of communications, uniting them in a single platform called ‘rootIO’.
The author of the project is Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, responsible for the Chair of the European Research Area, MITI, which aims to promote, research and innovation in the area of Design and Human Computer Interaction.
The project ‘ rootIO ‘was first created in the United States but, at the time of appointment to the chair, Csikszentmihalyi also brought the project to Madeira and recently has been installed the first station in Patongo, northern Uganda.
The project intends to operate as interactive network, “an extremely simple and inexpensive way, as he may maintain the roots and the language of the various communities involved.”
In rural areas of Uganda, traditional radio will serve to educate about AIDS or to make “regional product markets,” among other possibilities that are no longer limited by the lack of communication.
Although “the wonders of technology of mobile phones and the Internet , radio is still a form of content delivery used in many cases to receive information, “said Nuno Nunes.
In these more remote and rural communities, existing infrastructure is still limited and the design allows use” phone as the antenna and, at the same time as a radio station “.
A telephone call originated at one of these stations is relayed to other, as” a radio signal it were “.
According to Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, the project, with an estimated duration of two years, is estimated at about $ 250,000 (about 228,000 euros), includes the installation of four communication stations in Uganda, which will serve 150 thousand people.
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