Volunteers in Afghanistan -- both locals and foreigners from the MIT Bits and Atoms lab -- have been building out a wireless network made largely from locally scrounged junk. They call it "FabFi" and it's kicking ass, especially when compared with the World Bank-funded alternative, which has spent seven years and hundreds of millions of dollars and only managed its first international link last summer.
"A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities.".....Emeka Okafor
Sunday, March 28, 2010
High Speed Wifi out of Garbage
Another one for the 'maker' chronicles, Boing Boing reports:
Labels:
design,
fabrication,
ict,
infrastructure,
innovation,
maker faire africa,
Open source,
wireless
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