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A Nepali Times profile of Mahabir Pun, who gave up a career in the United States to bring the internet to his home village of Nangi in Nepal’s Myagdi district. Starting with school computers linked to a server in Pokhara by an antenna on a tree, the Nepal Wireless Project grew to connect 22 villages in Myagdi and Parbat over about five years, at a cost of roughly two million rupees. The network supports education, information on local products and market prices, and telemedicine linking eight villages with doctors at a Pokhara hospital. The article notes Pun’s 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award.