Current Events #3

The article "Mozilla and NSF Hand Out $1.6 Million to Wireless Challenge Winners" by  Tekla S. Perry from https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/wireless/mozilla-and-nsf-hand-out-16-million-to-wireless-challenge-winners was published in September 26, 2018. The article communicates to the reader about how Mozilla and NSF did a challenge to people to answer questions/take action about how to get communication/internet in rural and devastated areas. The author Tekla S. Perry in his/her article "Mozilla and NSF Hand Out $1.6 Million to Wireless Challenge Winners" illuminates this by writing, "To encourage developers to get serious about finding answers, they offered US $2 million in prize money in what they tagged the Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society challenge." Now with prize money, developers and inventors are persuaded to think of solutions to solve how to bring communication to rural areas. Another piece of writing from "Mozilla and NSF Hand Out $1.6 Million to Wireless Challenge Winners" by  Tekla S. Perry is, "HERMES enables local calling, SMS texting, and the use of messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. The innovation won in the Off-the-Grid Internet category." This achievement was a exceptional indeed with rural areas being able to access messaging services from their place.
I think that this challenge was a great one where innovation was achieved for the greater good. It is awesome that one company got first place that their technology can be implemented for greater use. A win-win situation really. Companies get some money and people get useful technology. I however think the prize should have been higher to encourage more innovation.