Links

Resources

• Dr Onno Purbo's Resources

• Articles on building antenna's and other wireless networking issues

• Video showing the step-by-step building of a cantenna (antenna made from a can) for wireless networking (Wi-Fi, WLAN at 2.4 Ghz)

• Wireless Networking in the Developing World: 2nd Edition (It is a free book about designing, implementing, and maintaining low-cost wireless networks. A new updated version is available)

• Wireless LAN Security, Wardriving & Warchalking

• Radio Mobile Software tool used to predict the performance of radio systems and to do radio link predictions

• Ubuntu Community developed, linux-based operating system

• Freedom Toaster, is a project to overcome the difficulty in obtaining Linux and Open Source software

• itrainOnline Wireless Networking Resources

• Wikipedia Wireless mesh network page

• Google Earth offers maps and satellite images of the world

• One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Wiki site sharing the experiences of the One Laptop Per Child project

• Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network A do-it-yourself guide to planning and building a Freifunk based mesh network. This is a step-by-step guide on converting a Linksys WRT54GL into a mesh node

• Free Telephony Project Open Embedded Telephony. The project is about providing free reference designs for embedded telephony. Both the hardware and software are open.

• translate.org.za Open Source Software Translation Project

• Wikipedia WRT54G models and harware specifications page

• VoIP-4D Primer - Building Voice Infrastructure in Developing Regions

• VoIP resources by Alberto Escudero Pascual (IT+46)

Wireless Community Networks

• CSIR Community Owned Information Networks Blog site

• Meraka Institute: Wireless Africa

• Freifunk.net and Freifunk wiki site

• Wireless Ghana Internet Connectivity for West African Communities

• Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN)

• Dharamsala Community Wireless Mesh Network

• Nepal Wireless

• Uganda Community Wireless Resource Centre, Department of Electrical Engineering, Makerere University

• Linknet, Macha, Zambia
  • Linknet
  • Linknet Wiki Site

• South Africa - Wireless User Groups
  • Johannesburg Area Wireless User Group
  • Pretoria Wireless Project
  • Pretoria Wireless User Group
  • Potchefstroom Community Network
  • Cape Town Wireless User Group
  • Durban Wireless Community

ICT Policy

• Link Centre Southern Africa's leading ICT policy, regulation and management hub

• APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor

• Research ICT Africa

• bridges.org