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Category: Community
Visiting freedom box villages and charting plans for community empowerment
The history One year ago, we visited some remote places in Andhra Pradesh, India where there is no cellular connectivity, to set up community-run, wireless networks. The idea was to provide access to offline-only digital-content with the help of freedom box server with a wireless local area network using long range outdoor Wi-Fi antennas. In some villages, there was a wired optical …
Freedom Box
We are building community networks in remote parts of the state.