Laos, three hours upriver from the nearest road in the small town of Phonsavan Hmong Jhai PC is a portal to another world. Monsoon rain and satellite networks in conjunction with and manufactured to extreme temperatures, previously reported abroad.It team of rice and clothing, living with relatives and contacts of the current price comes with a communications suite that both and illiterate villagers can set up and finally, checking with doctors up to host a video conferencing tool. The device powered by pedaling a stationary bike for free through the generator and battery costs about $ 200.

It's all a Laptop Per (Oelpesi) Children, Intel Classmate, and other high-profile, low-cost computer and share in the company of world.But Jhai it takes to facilitate the development of the PC is the product of a relatively small nonprofit in San Francisco is, Jhai Foundation, and Jhai founder Lee Thorn and Lee Felsenstein.What team than a friendship between its Jhai PC project - and quietly attracted interest from 65 countries - expect it in return: financial stability.

He said "thousands of computers around the world are dead in rural villages" Thorn says. "Stability of the real people of this [technology] to be interested in it for a long time. The money, as the problem it is just a white man dream.Jhai a 10-year plan is required every community a local. enterprising local to capture, maintain equipment and pay for Internet access and power sectors of the population have a business plan Jhai this process, participating in appropriate training and support with classes ., teachers can integrate into local teams in the schools curriculum.

Provide technology and allow them to clarify details, rather than the needs of the community to fork the program fits in technology and infrastructure. ", Jhai takes a bottom-up, while all other a top-down approach" says Mr. Felsenstein. "[The] total vision of the needs of the people." Jhai PC project and his mother's unusual commitment to Laos fork approach. Vietnam War as a soldier in the Navy in 1000, he helped land the aircraft with air strikes pound bomb load. Thirty years later, Thorn traveled to Southeast Asia in search of reconciliation and reconstruction of rural Laos found by. Since 1998, his Jhai Foundation to bring healing, to ensure the construction of schools and the establishment of coffee plantations and other businesses have helped.