2013, June 20

The school of Antintorona has got the Internet connection. It is realized through a radio bridge with the near and bigger island of Nosy Be. 

 

A antenna, posted in a high position an a big rock above the forest, re-send to the school of the village of Antintorona the signal coming form the city of Hell-Ville.

 

The complex system of networking has built by the Organization OLPC France, inside of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project for of the local Primary School.

The Wi-Fi Project has born two years ago, and has been realized in the 2012 in collaboration with the local telephone operator TELMA… from this year the service has been given for free in order of the humanitarian and educative intent.

OLPC International is an American Organization who produces little laptop for the children of the Elementary School. 

The little computer are resistant and tropicalized, propose for all the critical situation that can be found in the Third World environment. Those mobiles use Linux as Operative System and are fully furnished as a normal mobile computer… included a Wi-Fi network card. 

OLPC France: http://olpc-france.org/blog/

OLPC: http://olpc.org/

2013, June 11^th

The new solutions make the everyday work an interesting laboratory of life. The gradually introduction of new techniques in masonry and architecture helps the local workers to assimilate the new concepts of construction.

Following the idea that every advancement needs the right time to be assimilate, we wait and observe the slow but inevitable evolution of the local houses… from “ravinala” (leafs) and wood to concrete.

 The bricks are built in series before to rise the walls.

 Stefano is working at a mould of an arch.

The example of the bricks in concrete built by specific pre-shaped mould was only the first step to an infinity variety of different ones. Bricks, arches, and steps for stairs are already well assimilate in the by the locals… the main idea is that everything must be easy, cheap, intuitive, and repeatable.

Even the arches of the bridge built in the 2010 were prebuild and then brought to the location.

What we are experiment now is a new method to build terrace and solai avoiding wood: