Airjaldi

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Airjaldi is a computer mesh network around Dharamsala, India, that is one of the world's largest, covering hundreds of square kilometers of mountainous terrain in the Himachal foothills of the western Himalayas.

AirJaldi serves thousands of people in towns and villages scattered around Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile. AirJaldi was developed in cooperation with the Dharamsala Information Technology Group (DITG), an organization chaired by the Tibetan Computer Resource Center (TCRC) and some of the region’s leading information technology professionals. The network is the first project by the Tibetan Technology Center (TibTec), a charitable organization dedicated to harnessing modern technology and assisting the Tibetan community in India. The center is located at the Tibetan Children's Villages School (TCV) which hosts and supports it.

[edit] 2006 Summit

Tibtec hosted the AirJaldi Summit, 22-25 October, 2006. The Summit conference was followed by a series of workshops and meetings of professionals and experts in the art of building and maintaining rural wireless networks. The workshops were organised by WSFII, an ongoing international process of multiple, local action oriented events which provide space for people to come together, to share experiences, present practical solutions, to learn and to build, all kinds of free information infrastructures.