- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- technology@beehaw.org
What is the alternative to existing giant companies investing in the infrastructure? And why hasn’t that alternative already addressed this issue before the tech companies arrived?
There are some really cool community owned WISP and mesh networks set ups in areas doing green fields tbh. As well as open source 5g networks (which for parts of Africa is cool because they have some pretty advanced SMS based services).
More white people exploiting Africa
Seems to be quite the recurring theme
Remember when millionaire weirdos would brag about setting up internet access in random towns just to put people on their preferred cryptocurrency? They called it “banking the unbanked,” but we all know what it was really code for.
tradition as old as time
Thomas Sankara would like to know your location



