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The Internet by Motorbike

MrHatken writes "An interesting combination of wireless, wheels, and store-and-forward email: 'In Cambodia, motorbikes act as routers for a store-and-forward email system: The New York Times reports on a system that allow remote villages in Cambodia to send and receive email via Wi-Fi-equipped motorbikes. The Motoman system converges in the provincial capital where a satellite-enabled school uploads and downloads email for the remote recipients. The system is funded in part through U.S. benefactors who aren't just sending money; they're spending time there as well, and helping to improve the quality of medicine and people's livelihoods.'"

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  1. Re:WTF? by Inda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cambodia.

    A poverty sticken country that is slowly destroying itself with logging and mining.

    The amount of drugs they produce for the western world has to be their main plus point. Can I go with too?

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