The solution would be used throughout rural China.
A Chinese-Finnish joint project combines broadcast technologies and e-paper devices to create a new media platform for information distribution. The goal of the venture is to develop a low-cost, digital medium that specifically targets the problems of communicating with a dispersed population over a wide geographic area.
The Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Aalto University, and Shanghai’s research group, National Engineering Center of Digital Television, represent the two partners in the project. Together, participants plan to create device that is energy efficient—enough so to run on solar power—and mimics the appearance of ordinary paper. To keep the device inexpensive and consverative in power consumption, it would only receive, not transmit, messages.
The device would be used throughout rural China so that the population would receive a variety of commercial and public-service information, including news, educational materials, and official government bulletins.
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