WiFli Wants To Bring Internet Access To The Entire Planet

Bringing universal Internet access to the entire planet is an audacious goal, but one that isn’t entirely out of place at Singularity University’s graduate studies program, where students are asked over the course of a summer to come up with projects that could affect 1 billion people in 10 years. Universal Internet access--a project idea from some of this summer’s Singularity students--certainly fits the bill. The project, dubbed WiFli, wants to use empty wireless frequency spectra along with cheap hardware to bring the Internet to the world’s poor on the cheap. "[We want] Internet connectivity at low costs for the disenfranchised. It’s a way of stopping poverty and job loss," says team member Federico Pistono.