(Move this, please, if I missed the category choice.)
There’s not much of a chance of making this a short story, so here goes…
I fund a group in Guatemala that installs Raspberry Pi with wifi and several gigs of content to schools where no internet connection is possible.
It works really well, and they’ve done a good job supplying about 10 Chromebooks per school so the students can collaborate by classroom.
(One school set up a drip irrigation system with soda bottles for farming on their campus that is absolutely the bees knees. Learned it all from wikipedia.)
My idea is to start supplying a second round of access with inexpensive Kindle Fires (quantity discounts, under $50, can you imagine!) So that the ratio moves from about 3 or 4 per device to around two students per access point.
In my mind, the tablets could be jailbroken to install a proprietary flash screen and and only an internet browser.
I found this:
To be honest, this is my son’s forte, but he’s up to his neck into a project of his own right now, and I have no right to get in his way.
I am asking all the brainpower at DMS: Do you think a project like this is worth considering? If I fund it, is it possible to have 10 ready to go when I head back in 3 months?
It could be a PR opportunity, too.