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Nepalese educator who transformed the way of life in more than 150 remote
Himalayan villages by connecting them to the Internet was on Tuesday inducted
into the Internet Hall of Fame.
भिडिओ हेर्न तल क्लिक गर्नु होस्
Mr
Mahabir Pun spent more than a decade providing wireless Internet services to
villages which had lacked even a telephone service, opening up access to
education, commerce and health care.
भिडिओ हेर्न तल क्लिक गर्नु होस्
"I
am a strong advocate of a free Internet, I want the Internet to be available to
people living under the poverty line," Mr Pun told AFP in an interview in
Hong Kong , where the Internet Hall of Fame held its annual awards ceremony on
Tuesday.
Mr
Pun was inspired by the Internet in the US, where he studied for university in
the early 1990s, and was able to connect his native village of Nangi using
television dishes and homemade antennas in 2002.
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