C'est qui qui va nous sauver? Les afghans bien sur!
Toutes les infos là : Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash
Douglas Rushkoff has championed the idea that the current corporate-controlled internet is far from the open commons we pretend it is.
"If we have a dream of how social media could restore peer-to-peer commerce, culture, and government, and if the current Internet is too tightly controlled to allow for it, why not build the kind of network and mechanisms to realize it?" Rushkoff asks.
In FabLabs, technology brings people and ideas together. FabFi embraces this same principle. The public hospital, which houses the endpoint of FabFi Afghanistan's longest link, has become a shared community resource, providing downlinks to a growing number of locations in the city center.
The shared infrastructure facilitates communication between FabFi users all over the city as they collaboratively grow and maintain the network. The FabFi user group is learning valuable skills that will soon allow them to generate revenue for themselves and the Lab by building, installing and maintaining FabFi links as part of a "FabFi Club" at the FabLab.
Trouvé chez sebsauvage :
Des Afghans s'inquiètent sur l'avenir d'internet dans leur pays et prennent les devants en construisant leur propre réseau. Utopique ? Pas tant que ça: Ils fabriquent des antennes bon marché (60 dollars) capables de transmettre sur plusieurs kilomètres (leur record est 33,8 km). Et ça marche même dans de mauvaises conditions (pluie, brouillard). Ajouté de logiciels opensource faits maison, ils permettent de fournir des accès internet à des communautés entières. Et si c'était l'avenir de l'internet libre ? En tous cas, ça a de quoi inspirer.
Un INTERNET incongru? 