This is powerful stuff

I think we can use some of it for India and all based on SolarEnergy / Wind Energy / Stationary Bicycle ( So , you could lose weight and generate power :-)) The guy looks at different types of power generation models and keeps an open mind for new technologies which are open source at the same time and free as in freedom (FSF)

The Gujarat company helping Jhai : http://www.ecozen.com - this is the bicycle that generates power.

The Jhai Site Itself : http://www.jhai.org/jhai_remoteIT.html - the foundation website itself

I also found the Jhai presentation - quite instructive :
http://proedvid.stanford.edu/seminars/ee380/030108-ee380-100.wmv
The Abstract of the talk follows :
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The Jhai Foundation is working with a group of villages in rural Laos and has responded to the request of the villagers for a communication capability. The system under construction is Linux-based,802.11b-interconnected and intended to be operated by villag! e youth. With one station per village it will provide IP telephony to both the local network and the Internet, and will also run the KDE suite localized for Laos. The story of the development of this system may provide some insights into user-centric design in a completely different culture, and in turn may inform further efforts to bring digital Internet-based communications technology to other developing societies.
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