Support brings network-less mobiles closer to reality
A new, open source mobile phone technology developed by Flinders University鈥檚 "digital blacksmith" Dr. Paul Gardner-Stephen and which promises to revolutionize telecommunications has earned him a $400,000 Fellowship from the prestigious philanthropic Shuttleworth Foundation.
mobile phone that鈥檚 manufactured will have our technology,鈥� he said.
鈥淲e are excited to welcome Dr. Gardner-Stephen to the Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship programme. Innovative approaches like his are necessary to enable ubiquitous, affordable access to telecommunications,鈥� says Karien Bezuidenhout, COO of the Shuttleworth Foundation.
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