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SUMMARY:Connecting Afghanistan: Wireless internet with plywood and chicken
  wire - Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20090127T193000Z
DTEND:20090127T200000Z
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CONTACT:Carl Scheffler
DESCRIPTION:A team of 7 people recently ventured into Afghanistan to help 
 set up high speed internet infrastructure to a hospital\, a school and a N
 GO in Jalalabad. Having just returned\, Carl will show how building antenn
 as with cheap materials is drawing people around the world to the place wh
 ere communication\, invention and play come together. This tale will inclu
 de many photos and personal experiences alongside the story of how fabrica
 tion labs that have been deployed from the North of Norway\, to South Afri
 ca\; from rural India\, to the USA are changing the way people interact wi
 th technology.\n\nhttp://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/cs482/fablab/\n\nhttp
 ://www.fablab.af/\n
LOCATION:Boys Smith Room\, Fisher Building\, St John's College
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