  Recent years have witnessed several initiatives on enabling Internet access
to the next three billion people. Access to the Internet necessarily translates
to access to its services. This means that the goal of providing Internet
access requires ac- cess to its critical service infrastructure, which are
currently hosted in the cloud. However, recent works have pointed out that the
current cloud centric nature of the Internet is a fundamental barrier for
Internet access in rural/remote areas as well as in developing regions. It is
important to explore (low cost) solutions such as micro cloud infrastructures
that can provide services at the edge of the network (potentially on demand),
right near the users. In this paper, we present Cloudrone- a preliminary idea
of deploying a lightweight micro cloud infrastructure in the sky using
indigenously built low cost drones, single board computers and lightweight
Operating System virtualization technologies. Our paper lays out the
preliminary ideas on such a system that can be instantaneously deployed on
demand. We describe an initial design of the Cloudrone and provide a
preliminary evaluation of the proposed system mainly focussed on the
scalability issues of supporting multiple services and users.
