Ericsson/MTN and Flexenclosures have won the prestigious Global Mobile Award by the GSMA for the Community Power project in the "Best use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development" category. The solution deployed in Liberia and Dertu in North Eastern Kenya, allows communities to use excess power generated from a basestation to power their homes. The solution has been trialed in the Dertu Millennium Village, a remote settlement in north- eastern Kenya. There, one site generated about 4,000kWh in excess energy a year, theoretically the amount of energy needed to generate power to support mobile phone charging stations, illuminate street lights and supply power to community buildings such as clinics and schools in a small village. In Dertu, the base station powered a fridge that stored medicine for the local community. http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/press/releases/2011/02/1489255 This is the first deployment of it's kind. The African mobile space continues to innovate ahead of other mature markets. -- [Asentric Consulting Ltd] "You don't build a business, you build people who build your business for you" - Brad Sugars