3/8/14

This Small Brick-Shaped Device Can Help Get Millions Of Africans Online | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Even in the biggest cities in Africa, it’s not easy to get (and stay) online. But this small brick-shaped device--called, appropriately, the BRCK--could help bring better connectivity to the entire continent and maybe to everywhere else, too.

“In this part of the world, one of our constant challenges is that at any moment, the Internet can go out,” says BRCK's chief operating officer Philip Walton. “As an example, in the last 12 months, our undersea fiber optic cable has been severed by ship anchors twice. Imagine you have a team and they’re working on coding and doing development work and all of the sudden the Internet goes out not for a few minutes, but for a few weeks.” * Source