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Startsida - minpension.se. Miljardären som misstror börsen - Entreprenör - E24. Afghanistan's Amazing DIY Internet. The Afghan city of Jalalabad has a high-speed Internet network whose main components are built out of trash found locally.

Afghanistan's Amazing DIY Internet

Aid workers, mostly from the United States, are using the provincial city in Afghanistan's far east as a pilot site for a project called FabFi. It's a broadband apart from the covert, subversive "Internet in a suitcase" and stealth broadband networks being sponspored by the U.S., aimed at empowering dissidents, but the goal isn't so different: bringing high-speed onilne access to the world's most remote places. Residents can build a FabFi node out of approximately $60 worth of everyday items such as boards, wires, plastic tubs, and cans that will serve a whole community at once.

While it sounds like science fiction, FabFi could have important ramifications for entire swaths of the world that lack conventional broadband. FabFi is an open source project that maintains close ties to MIT's Fab Lab and the university's Center for Bits and Atoms. Så mycket pengar gör dig lycklig.

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