Principal Investigator Ethan Zuckerman
Co-investigator J Nathan Matias
Project Website http://civic.mit.edu/grassroots-mobile-infrastructure
We want to help people in nations where electric power is scarce sell power to their neighbors. We’re designing a piece of prototype hardware that plugs into a diesel generator or other power source, distributes the power to multiple outlets, monitors how much power is used, and uses mobile payments to charge the customer for the power consumed.