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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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billion people around the world who don’t have meaningful access to it, according to a Brookings Institution report, “Bridging the Global Digital Divide.” It solicited early-stage projects that have already been piloted but not yet widely deployed, plus theoretical concepts that have potential. But that’s not the case for more than 3.5

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

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But in countries without the same level of investment in network infrastructure, the picture was less rosy: Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa and Venezuela , for instance, reported significant strain. The actual algorithm for distributing files is more complex, but the concept is similar. We don’t think so.

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