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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico. VPUU works to transform low-income neighborhoods into safer, more sustainable communities.

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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. Once again, the information. But is overprovisioning the only way to ensure resilience? We don’t think so.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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We used this information to estimate annual greenhouse-gas emissions from the fuel cycle, which depend partly on the average vehicle size and partly on how much vehicle efficiency improves over time. Promoting mixed-use neighborhoods—areas that put work and residence in proximity—would allow more bicycling and walking.