Ars Electronica Festival · 2004
DakNet: Store and Forward
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2004
“DakNet: Store and Forward” by www.firstmilesolutions.com received a Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2004.
Our objective is to provide a seed communications infrastructure for the three billion people living in rural areas with no connectivity. Our network software enables rural communities to send and receive email, perform cached Web searches, and enable integration with numerous store-andforward applications such as…
About www.firstmilesolutions.com
DakNet emerged out of a class called “Developmental Entrepreneurship” co-taught by professors from the MIT Media Lab and MIT Sloan School of Management. Through this class the founders came up with the core idea of combining transportation infrastructure with…
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