Project Loon

For Google to build solar powered Internet balloons, makes me realize the never ending reward to creativity. “Project Loon” is a great way for people in countries that have little infrastructure to actually get access to information. The benefits to access to the internet will allow kids to learn from internet sites and be able to communicate with other people besides the ones they are surrounded by. If Kenya, does receive the one laptop per child, it would boost the amount of information each child has access to. The kids could do what kids and people do on the Internet. Simple things like how to, the news, and videos will allow kids an opportunity to learn things they never did before.

If Google can control the balloons, meaning if Google can makes sure the balloons do not get caught in any thing (ie. a tree, animal, power line, lake) then perhaps then Project Loon will be successful. Furthermore, if the balloons need any kind of repair if they tear or fall out of the sky, Google should be able to respond immediately.

Is “Project Loom” an idea that can catch on in Kenya? Is there a better technology that can give the kids that receive a laptop access to information? Should the people of Kenya be the ones to actually be taking care of their own infrastructure, and Google should just stay out of the country?