Book: Wireless Networking in the Developing World

A group of enthusiasts have written this book about bringing wireless technology to the developing world. It contains a lot of information about setting up outdoor WiFi nodes, mounting them on cheap towers, supplying solar or wind power, aligning the antenna, and many other details. Although the book in intended to allow just about anybody to set up large scale wireless networks, but things can certainly not be so simple, and prior experience will be necessary. However, it is a step in the right direction by having experts assemble information and make this available freely to everybody. I hope that such initiatives will be taken for other aspects of social development as well, like setting up of solar panels, wind turbines, water purifiers, rural Internet kiosks, and other things.