Bourem Inaly is a small village isolated from the electric and landline infrastructure a couple of hours from Timbuktu, Mali. Geekcorps with the help of USAID-Bamako has helped extend the reach of the community radio station by hooking up the Internet PC (on vsat) to stream video to fifteen households (215 members!) with tv sets using a homebrew antenna called CanTV. The stations makes about $45/month renting this gear.
Geekcorps Matt Berg has posted a wonderful video on YouTube that shows a villager assembling a CanTV in fast motion, and there's a great music soundtrack. Highly recommended.
I thought off the grid meant something along the lines of out of this world. Still a great post though, thanks for the information. I'll look into it.
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