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Dear Friends and Supporters of Inveneo.

It’s been a big year for Inveneo, starting out as a small team operating out of an apartment in San Francisco with a big goal of bringing telephony and Internet communications to places where it’s needed most. In just one year, we’ve deployed our system to rural villages in Uganda, brought communications to areas of Mississippi devastated by hurricane Katrina and demonstrated our solutions at the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) conference in Tunis with Intel and ActionAid. You’ll see below that we have much more in store next year.

We thank you for your interest and support and we wish all of you happy holidays and a successful New Year.

The Inveneo Team and the many volunteers who help make all our efforts happen….

Contents:
· Inveneo’s Impact in 2005
· Inveneo in the News
· Looking into 2006
· How your financial support helps

Highlights of Inveneo’s impact in 2005

Inveneo completed its Solar-Powered PC and Communications System, designed specifically for the needs of deployment in rural villages

In partnership with ActionAid International http://www.actionaid.org Inveneo brought telephony and Internet access to five villages in Uganda, each with over 800 inhabitants, for the first time ever. These villagers are now:
o Using email to share market prices for crops
o Coordinating trips to market towns to increase revenue up to 5x
o Calling health clinics for advice, rather than walking for hours
o Checking for secondary school scholarships, so their children can attend
o Checking government Anti-Retro Viral (ARV) medication distribution locations

Inveneo participated in Cisco Systems pilot program for the NEPAD schools initiative. This six school deployment of computers, multi-media and the Internet will benefit thousands of secondary school of children across Rwanda.

Inveneo in the news

In Slate: Waiting for the $100 Laptop? Don’t hold your breath.
http://www.slate.com/id/2131201/

In San Jose Mercury News: You Have a Call from Uganda
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/12452180.htm

What’s coming up in 1st Quarter 2006

Inveneo will present our Solar Powered Communications System to the participants of the annual Conference for the Advancement of Telemedicine in Arlington, VA from January 30th – February 2nd.

Steve Okay has been invited back in February for his third year of teaching at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. The institute brings together individuals from all over the developing world to provide hands on training in networking. Steve will be teaching at the School on Wireless Networking for Development.

Keep an eye out for announcements from Inveneo as we start to make our Solar-Powered PC and Communications System available as a "solution kit" from our website and as we announce new pilots and deployments around the world.

How can you help?

At this time of year, we’d like to ask that you consider a donation to Inveneo as a way to help make a greater impact with technology for people around the world.

Your donation of:

You can make a donation through Paypal from our website: http://www.inveneo.org/?q=donate

Or send a check to: Inveneo, 760 Market Street, Suite 859 San Francisco, CA 94102.