{"id":4493,"date":"2006-05-24T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T09:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/more-on-inveneo.html"},"modified":"2006-05-24T09:17:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T09:17:20","slug":"more-on-inveneo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/more-on-inveneo.html","title":{"rendered":"More On Inveneo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year ago I wrote about a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/bicycle-powered-voip.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Inveneo<\/font><\/a> &ndash; a nonprofit producing a bicycle\/solar powered VoIP system that can be used in villages where electricity and cell phones are not available. The bike runs on Asterisk and I have had a chance since to pedal this bike.<\/p>\n<p>About 13 months later, Time magazine has gotten into the game and has also written about Inveneo. Here is their excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1196418,00.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">article<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans&#8211;Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59&#8211;who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives&#8211;through phone calls to health clinics, fast reporting of natural disasters, support for trading co-ops and better educational opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>So they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations&#8211;some bolted to trees&#8211;fan out for up to four miles and connect a network of PCs. Total cost, including solar panels and relay stations: $1,995.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year ago I wrote about a company called Inveneo &ndash; a nonprofit producing a bicycle\/solar powered VoIP system that can be used in villages where electricity and cell phones are not available. The bike runs on Asterisk and I have had a chance since to pedal this bike. About 13 months later, Time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,191],"tags":[496,1180,577,1181,607,1182],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}