GSP-09 Team Project: OneGlobalVoice

A development platform that gives access to cloud-computing resources through SMS on a basic (2G) cellphone. It demonstrates how innovations commonly carried out on computationally-and-bandwidth heavy internet subscriptions, or on fast and relatively expensive 3G networks (available to less than a quarter of mobile subscribers worldwide) can also take place on the 2G networks available to over half the worlds population.

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Science & Technology

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• oneglobalvoice
• singularity university
• gsp-09
• shai machnes

[felpaluche]

Keep on with this project. I admire your ideas.

[sparkloweb]

I'm probably missing something, but this idea seems analagous to building a 10,000-line BBS just before everyone started getting broadband Internet. What will be the point in a few years when the developing world has secondhand 3G phones from way back in 2010? Will they have a need for this service?

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

An interesting proposal, but I would like to hear a bit more about how you intend to make this work. I'm guessing your intention is to setup a platform that will enable people to register a phone number, create an API, then receive and process SMS messages written for that API. But how does cloud computing factor into this? Do you intend to include in your platform a basis for a distributed network that anyone setting up such a number can tap into?