In the News
Articles or Presentations about the Village Telco or the Mesh Potato
Sept 2014
Mankosi network in Eastern Cape, South Africa and the new Mesh Potato 2 are profiled in this TechCentral article
Aug 2012
Jose Soto’s Village Telco is profiled in this Ars Technica article, “How one man is bringing VoIP, ‘Net access where telecoms fear to tread”
Village Telco is profiled in this article on innovation in the Stanford Social Innovation Review – Open Innovation – A Muse for Scaling.
Apr 2012
Hacking Wi-Fi Routers to Bring Voice and Data to Rural Communities – Village Telco profile on Core77 Blog
Mar 2012
Steve Song on African Telecommunications and Village Telco at the LIFT12 Conference – Video – Slides
Village Telco is profiled on the VC4Africa website.
Jan 2012
Terry Gillett and Steve Song interviewed on FLOSS Weekly podcast – FLOSS Weekly
Nov 2011
Future Tense – Australian Broadcasting Corporation – David Rowe and Paul-Gardner Stephen are interviewed about Village Telco and the Serval Project.
May 2011
Business Day – Spotlight on Rural Areas for Network Connection
November 2010
MyBroadband – Mobile Industry Needs to Re-invent Itself
Thought Leadership Interview with Steve Song in Africa Telecoms.
October 2010
Sjur Usken is interviewed about the Village Telco. Article is in Norwegian.
August 2010
Steve Song is interviewed by Ulrike Reinhard at MakerFaire Africa.
WebMadeMovies piece on the Village Telco in the Bo-kaap.
TechCentral – ‘Potato’ project to connect African villages
Memeburn – Mesh Potato device could dramatically lower connectivity costs
Tech4Africa – Mesh Potatoes Become Hot Potatoes
AllAfrica.com – Orange Farm Builds Its Own Independent Phone System
April 2010
Radio Australia’s TechStream interviews David Rowe about the Mesh Potato and the Dili Village Telco – Tech Stream 047
David Rowe is interviewed by ITWire – Communications for the rest: Rowe and the Mesh Potato
February 2010
David Rowe is interviewed about his Village Telco pilot in Dili, East Timor – Australian Potato network feeds Dili’s communication needs
November 2009
The Mesh Potato is profiled in the December issue of Linux Journal. The article, written by Mesh Potato designer David Rowe, profiles some of the challenges and successes that we’ve gone through in bring the Mesh Potato into existence and soon into production.
VoIP Users Conference (VUC) – Steve Song talks with the VUC community about the Village Telco.
October 2009
ICTWorks – Village Telco: Rural Voice Services Business Model
LWN Interview with David Rowe – Open source hardware for telephony
September 2009
Steve Song – TEDx Talk on the Village Telco and the Mesh Potato
January 2009
David Rowe – A Talk on the Mesh Potato given at linux.conf.au
October 2008
ICTUpdate – The Mesh Potato Network
