The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has funded a proposal submitted by the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) to teach Wi-Fi implementers and programmers in Africa. CUWiN is working with the Association for Progressive Communications, Ecole Sup?©rieure Multinationale des T?©l?©communications, and wire.less.dk, a Danish wireless consulting company on this project. They received US$225,000 for the period July 2004 to June The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has funded a proposal submitted by the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) to teach Wi-Fi implementers and programmers in Africa. CUWiN is working with the Association for Progressive Communications, Ecole Sup?©rieure Multinationale des T?©l?©communications, and wire.less.dk, a Danish wireless consulting company on this project. They received US$225,000 for the period July 2004 to June 2006.
The program will be used to teach trainers in Africa how to build out wireless infrastructure and programmers adding features to existing software and those creating new software. The diverse population of Africa faces unique hurdles which this program will overcome through a variety of techniques:
- training: hands-on workshops in North, South, and West Africa;
- materials development: documentation collected and translated into English, French, and Arabic; and
- distributed knowledge base: development and maintenance of the CUWiN SourceForge development site to collect technical information of interest to wireless implementers and programmers.
Through projects such as this, the groundwork is being laid to establish communities of wireless networking practitioners in Africa and across the world, with a vision of holding future in-depth training sessions in greater numbers.
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