RT @zainabbawa
Woah - each browser tab open is more than the cost of producing a newspaper. We can't be ostriches in the sand when the carbon emissions of our applications are rising. @vanyaseth at #XConfIndia

The video of our talk is now available on the FreedomBox PeerTube channel.

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox, XConf 2018, India
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/3cd45772-e177-4221-a66a-f8a796e0826c

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Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

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