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Don’t start from where you are
The lost American tourist pulls over to a Highland roadside to ask directions from a rain-drenched local. ‘Say, old man, how do I get to Inverness?’ ‘Well, laddie,’ comes the dour reply, ‘I wouldn’t start from here.’
The problem with going from A to C is sometimes that you get completely stuck at point B. But what if you start at C and work backwards?
The Indian government was keen to bring its rural communities online. However, the logistics of laying the cables and setting up wi-fi stations to connect them presented a massive technical challenge.
Then someone had a bright idea. The villagers were generally only interested in doing a few things online such as checking cricket scores, swapping emails with ...
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