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As we pointed out earlier, not all teachers are connected to computers, however many people own cell phones and many schools (even in the developing world) have at least one TV. We need to harness the newest technology to deliver prevention to remote regions.

Modern cell phones and PDAs have larger memory storage capacities. Modern cell phones have at least 2 MB of storage and PDA average at about 16 MBs. With the Supercourse lectures being 300 KB each, downloading at least 6 of them into a memory of a cell phone should not be a problem. TV would be a presentation media for a lecture downloaded to a cell phone.

Steps of how the system would work:

  1. School teacher in a developing country wants to talk about AIDs prevention
  2. She/he calls a number in the capital, and types 53
  3. PowerPoint lecture 53 is dropped into her phone
  4. The phone serves a powerpoint hard drive, pointer, and PowerPoint driver
  5. The phone is connected by a wire to the TV, after coming off line (limiting the amount of line usage)
  6. The TV then serves as the Audio visual tool for project

To use this simple model all a village needs is a cell phone, and at TV