Onno Purbo's wokbolic solution to boosting low-cost internet access,In short, what he was doing was to take a wok -- the versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel originating in China -- added on a wifi pen drive, and manage to create rough-and-ready and cheap tool to extend the wireless capacity of your computer. In this way, one could link up dozens of others while sharing a single fat pipe to the Net.
This makes Net access a whole new ball game, specially in resource-poor, talent-rich countries where most can't afford the luxury of the internet.
Purbo, a PhD, counts among his current priorities "spreading knowledge -- through many workshops, demos, seminars in Indonesia -- on low cost Internet access using wokbolic, neighbourhood network, open source software, internet telephony etc."
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