Re: Contextualized software, cost of download

I've heard of a ISP in Ghana that saves a lot of bandwidth by
deploying squid caching proxies everywhere they can.


I would like to see a project that basically loads up a 100USD 500G
hard drive with Wikipedia and the kind of stuff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network gets paid to
distribute.

Then when communities/schools in a remote community are connected to
the Internet that hard drive is connected to an embedded device like a
NSLU2 (or hopefully straight up to the router). Routers have to be
smarter, i.e. contain squid in such environs like 'Africa'.

Admittedly it's not the read/write Web, but it's a step in the right direction.