Greetings from Tsukuba - a quiet farming area with a heavy sprinkling of
tax-payer funded construction projects.
There isn't actually any information on my home page about the rural bridge
group, so further to Michael's earlier post I would invite anyone who is
interested in the problem of getting higher bandwidth Internet connectivity
to rural people to subscribe to the rural bridge mailing list by sending a
mail to:
ruralbridge-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
The entire list archive (available to members) is smaller than one keitai-l
digest, but has plenty of interesting links (if you didn't already know
about plans to provide Internet from solar-powered, high altitude flying
wings, or Nokia's Rooftop system, or Teledesic).
I've particularly appreciated the recent discussion on keitai-l on the
strengths and limitations of 802.11b, and would value having more of that
kind of input into ruralbridge. Our current membership is light on
telecommunications engineers, and I think there are business opportunities
in this area. Rural doesn't always mean poor - especially in Japan!
Apologies for this being at a tangent to the main purpose of this list -
I'll now step back into the shadows.
Matthew Laurenson
Dept. of Information Science and Technology
National Agriculture Research Center
Kannondai 3-1-1
Tsukuba
Ibaraki 305-0035
Japan
ph +81-298-387025
fax +81-298-388551
e-mail matthewl@narc.affrc.go.jp
web page http://cse.narc.affrc.go.jp/matthewl/
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Received on Sat Aug 18 03:48:32 2001