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Billions of bucks are being spent nationally and globally on supplying computing entry to digitally deprived teams and cultures with an expectation that desktops and the net may end up in larger socio-economic mobility. This ethnographic examine of social computing within the important Himalayas, India, investigates replacement social practices with new applied sciences and media among a inhabitants that's for the main half undocumented.

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