KioskNet is a system, developed at the

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, to provide very low cost Internet access to rural villages in

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, based on the concept of

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. It uses vehicles, such as buses, to ferry data between village kiosks and Internet gateways in nearby urban centers. The data is re-assembled at a

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for interaction with legacy servers.The KioskNet project web page
The system is free and open source. A video describing the KioskNet system can be foun
here
i>, or is available on YouTub
here

References

{{Reflist Computer-mediated communication

See also

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