Pull this off successfully, and it could be worth a dozen normal foreign aid programs.

The main website (link was in the article!) is here.

If I were running the show, I would actually encourage Third-World knockoffs (remember, this is supposed to be a charity effort).

The specs say "dirt and moisture resistant." I certainly hope so. Mil Spec, if possible at the price.

The bitch, as always, is internet connections. I wish there were satellite hookups powerful enough that a small antenna could communicate.

I wonder if it would ever be possible to create an antenna for a laptop that can work with other nearby antennas (like radio arrays) to create more transmission and reception power than one laptop alone might have.