Nepal Wireless
since1968.com: Mahabir Pun Nepal Wireless Interview
A nice interview with Mahabir Pun about his project to bring wireless networks to rural Nepal. This is a project that my colleague Sebastian has been somewhat involved in as a sort of online volunteer. It is also one of the projects that we are looking to visit on our wireless roadshow, if all works according to plan.
Mahabir has just accepted our invitation to join us at the upcoming wireless4development workshops to be held as part of the FreiFunk Summer Convention on Djursland (Rural Denmark) in September.
The Summer Convetion is a sort of European Community Wireless Summit, with a rocking program (well it will be, i promise) and a really great rural broadband project as hosts. We have been lucky enough to find funding (Thankyou Open Society Institute) to piggy back a workshop on wireless in the developing world onto this and have invited such notabilites as Onno Purbo, Dave Hughes and Mahabir as ell as a number of our Wireless Roadshow partners.
I'm so excited, things are really starting to move here. What with this project, the IDRC funded curriculum project I mentioned earlier, and a few projects I am working on with Taqctical Technology Collective, things are happening and happening fast these days.
After receiving his Master%u2019s Degree in Education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Mahabir Pun returned to his native village, Nangi, and founded the Himanchal Education Foundation. Mr. Pun is currently at work establishing wireless networks in rural Nepal.
