Fogibox
Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
2011
Organization type:
nonprofit/ngo/citizen sector
Start-Up
Budget:
$1 million - $5 million
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Desmond in South Africa, needs to get data from one village to another. There is no connectivity between the two villages. Though many people make the walk everyday. Desmond asks someone going to that village to bring a USB stick to his friend. The friend receives it and plugs it into his device. Immediately content starts to sync between the USB stick and device.
Updates from farming related content, the latest market prices for produce, latest information gets synched onto the USB device. The friend then unplugs the USB memory stick and hands it back to the transporter, who then walks back to first village and hands the USB stick to the stick's owner, whom then plugs up and syncs the latest content. Allow better decisions to be made.
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
This concept has only recently hit the masses, spear headed by Van Jacobson of Parc. This concept is called a content centric network. It is set to become the new internet. We aim to bring it into the 3rd world countries.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
All software and hardware will be released as GPL3 Open Source. For general public usage. Though we aim to sell neat hardware devices over the internet via mail order.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
Parc, a xerox company, they are doing more academic iterations on the design. It is a proof of concept that is working.
Cisco is looking at it with interest, having already invested millions.
We aim to redo the technology so that it is open source and can operate efficiently in 3rd world countries.
Founding Story
I wanted to move physical objects from one part of the world to another without paying a transportation company to do it for me. One thing lead to the next and I'm working on deploying a content centric network to the world.