{"id":423,"date":"2003-12-15T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplicity.dk\/?p=423"},"modified":"2003-12-15T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T11:36:24","slug":"the-real-world-rickshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krag.be\/index.php\/2003\/12\/15\/the-real-world-rickshaw\/","title":{"rendered":"The real world rickshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | Technology | Rickshaws connect India's poor\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3256516.stm\">BBC NEWS | Technology | Rickshaws connect India&#8217;s poor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, we <a href=\"http:\/\/wire.less.dk\/?en.9.3\">outfitted a bicycle cab<\/a> with  wireless internet via wifi, as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wire.less.dk\/?en.9.4\">Copenhagen Interpolation<\/a> conference. <\/p>\n<p>It seems this idea is out there in the real world now, According to BBC news.  Shyam Telecom which operates in the Indian state of Rajasthan, has outfitted a number of bicycle rickshaws with mobile phones, and plans to add connected laptops to a few as well. This gives the generally poor drivers another source of income as they get around 20% of the revenue generated by phone calls from their rickshaw.<\/p>\n<p>Way to go!<\/p>\n<p><bq>The company has equipped a fleet of rickshaws with a mobile phone. Drivers pedal these mobile payphones throughout the state capital, Jaipur, and the surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n<p>The rickshaw drivers, numbering around 200, are largely drawn from those at the margins of society &#8211; the disabled and women.<\/bq><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS | Technology | Rickshaws connect India&#8217;s poor Earlier this year, we outfitted a bicycle cab with wireless internet via wifi, as part of the Copenhagen Interpolation conference. 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