Spotted Using a Mac: Students Create Stealth Internet in Afghanistan
©NYT/Keith Berkoben/Fab Folk
The New York Times offered up a classic piece of long-form Sunday reportage with an article on how people around the world are creating “Internet in a suitcase” projects, in part funded by the U.S. State Department to detour repressive regimes.
The lead pic is this one with a Mac at the center from Keith Berkoben, a Masters’ student at MIT who has he has led the development of the Fabfi Wireless project and spearheaded the deployment of a city-scale user-extensible wireless mesh in Jalalabad, Afghanistan since 2009.
The caption:
“Students at a school near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, helped point a FabFi wireless mesh radio at a distant radio. With FabFi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed Internet connectivity.”
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