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| Title | Summary | Author |
Time |
Language | Updated |
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| Unidad 18: Comunidad, Género y Tecnología |
Aqui se explora la interrelación de las tecnologías de información y comunicación con la sociedad, con miras a favorecer la inclusión de los grupos menos favorecidos y particular atención a la cuestiones de género. |
Equipo TRICALCAR | 1 hour | Spanish | 29 Aug 08 |
| WiMAX and non Standard Solutions |
WiMAX has raised many expectations promising greater range, QoS and roaming capabilities beyond what WiFi can offer. But prices remain significantly higher than solutions based on WiFi modifications and some proprietary technologies. A description of the main features of these three general categories is presented with some examples. |
TRICALCAR Team | 1 hour | English | 25 Sep 08 |
| Long Distance WiFi Links |
By using external antennas and modifying the firmware, very low cost, long distance WiFi links can be built. High gain antennas require careful alignment, that most be done using signla generators and spectrum analyzers. A low cost version of these is presented. |
TRICALCAR Team | 1 hour | English | 31 Aug 08 |
| Community, ICTs and Gender |
Consider gender perspective in order to achieve fairness and equality of opportunities between women and men in the use and |
TRICALCAR Team | 1 hour | English | 30 Aug 08 |
| Network Planning |
How to plan for a wireless network.Viability study. Implementation plan. Budget .Licenses and permissions. Import and acquisition of equipment. Contracts and quality assurance. |
TRICALCAR Team | 1 hour | English | 30 Aug 08 |
| Sustainability Strategies |
Define basic concepts of sustainability. Provide a guide to identify factors that may be critical for the sustainability of community wireless networks. Analise examples of projects that have used Wi-Fi technology in their networks. |
TRICALCAR Team | 1 hour | English | 30 Aug 08 |
| Wokbolic & Bazooka Antenna for 3G (Indonesian) |
In this note, detailed design as well as step by step on how to make a wokbolic & bazooka antenna for 3G will be described. PVC tubing & aluminium tape is used to make a low cost wokbolic & bazooka antenna.
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Onno W. Purbo | 1 hour | Indonesian | 11 Oct 08 |
| dB math and Link Budget Calculation |
This presentation is on dB math (why do we use dBs?, examples of calculations with dBs, etc) and on Link Budget Calculation (how far can a wireless link go?, what gain should my antenna have, etc). |
Marco Zennaro, Carlo Fonda | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Wireless needs (work) |
subtitle: Do we need wireless? Wireless needs a lot of work! ;) ...Wireless networks: "why, when and where" of WLANs
This is a "not-very-serious lecture" for introducing issues and benefits of wireless networking (it also contains some polls/questionnaires to check the background knowledge of the audience) |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Open training on wireless |
This presentation summarize the experience of 7 years of training on wireless networking at the ICTP (Trieste, Italy). |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |