Loband
With appropriate filtering, the information on the Internet can be accessed over poor connections. If reduced to its core text, even the poorest connections can deliver Internet information faster than the human eye can read. The impact of this for remote and impoverished areas is profound.
Our first piece of software, Loband, seeks to provide a solution to the problem of effective, affordable Internet access in poor countries. We completed the first phase of Loband's development in 2004.
Loband is a service that simplifies web pages, in order to make them download faster over slow Internet connections. Loband is designed to run on a server in a high-bandwidth area. Users in low-bandwidth areas browse to the small Loband website, and then request the site they want to view. Loband then downloads the site, reduces it in size, and then sends it on to the user. This can significantly speed up the user's browsing experience over a stable, low-bandwidth connection.
Loband requires no software download to function, works on most websites, and is automated and open-source.
Loband site
Instructions for downloading Loband source code