Africa might not be the initial place you regard of when discussing about the digital subversion but many Zambian villages are seeking to change all that.
The encampment of Macha is a long way from anywhere, the nearest locale is roughly 50 miles away.
But is to past couple of years it has harboured a startling mental condition - to colonize the expansion of the internet to the 80% of Zambians who do not live in cities.
And this is great headlines for Zambians similar to Fred Mweetwa who has lived and worked on his family's plantation given he was born.
One of his cows was sick and the oldster was hundreds of miles away. While the encampment has had a mobile vigilance for a couple of years, there is right away other way.
"With Skype we only contacted [a vet]. He was able to reply inside of a couple of mins and we was able to give my animal the right drug," he says.
"After saying that it is doable, even with other farmers we are right away anticipating to organize a organisation that will be related to Skype and the veterinary offices in [the local locale of] Mazabuka."
And in the past year, Mr Mweetwa has got the local air wave hire back up and running - giving the locals something local to attend to.
Technology showcase
It is a luck to persist African culture. Local bands use the studios to record songs that are then uploaded to the web to share.
So how did Macha turn Zambia's technology showcase?
A Christian assignment set up here a long time ago supposing support. A malaria investigate centre followed and, in 2003, a heavenly body information connection was installed.
But what has done the disparity is the way that the link has been common - display ordinary Zambians how the internet can help them.
The vigilance is bounced to the sanatorium where prescriptions can right away be systematic online, the schools have it for study and so does the nursing practice college.
With new treatments and practices building every year, the internet is a ample more utilitarian apparatus than the library.
And it is not only the institutions that are connected. The H2O tower is the village's top indicate and is used to send a vigilance across wifi hotspots then related up to emanate a network.
There is right away wifi in the restaurant, across many homes and at the cybercafé.
A lecturer practice college has been set up to concentration on computing and young kids from the age of 4 are given weekly lessons - starting from scratch.
But there is other doctrine being taught - that nothing in life is free. When the inexhaustible unfamiliar donors leave, this encampment wants to be able to pay for itself.
'Successful project'
Six months ago a document network began. While a few have stopped logging on altogether, those who have seen the benefits pay $30 (£19) a month or purchase graze cards for about $2 (£1.30) per hour. Everyone needs a document - even the practice college.
The 500KB heavenly body connection expenses $1,000 (£648) a month to run.
And it has not been without its technical glitches - the netting network had to be reconfigured so the network could be policed. But one consultant believes charging is major for success.
"It is presumably the many successful plan we have come upon during my investigate over the past couple of years," says Ugo Vallauri, of Computer Aid International.
"Everywhere we visited across Africa, we beheld that the short time the donor appropriation at the bottom of many of these projects was running out, the projects would be deceased the day after.
"It is simply unfit to come up to such high expenses for one singular residents unless, as is going on here in Macha, things are introduced in a slow but solid way - small by small the expenses are common across the community."
And given the internet's arrival, things are of course different.
From the way the encampment creates bricks, to planting Jatropha - a bio-fuel stand - that is hoped will power motor fuel generators for places with no electricity, the attainment of technology has led to poignant changes.
Even a Zambian bank is relocating in to town. When these teller stations open it will save teachers a 100-mile round-trip to gather their wages.
But can this unique examination be used to link up other remote villages? Ones that didn't obtain the head beginning that Macha did.
Solar-powered internet
Around 50 mins expostulate away, across immeasurable areas of farms and scrubland, lies Chikanta.
While there is washed H2O and food, there is no mains electricity, air wave hire or local journal and if you longed for to make a call you would must be travel a mile to the nearest mountain to obtain a feeble signal.
Six months ago, the British Charity Computer Aid commissioned Zambia's initial solar-powered internet hub.
The panels on the roof tiles feed power to the Personal Computer inside. To keep power expenditure down, the other 10 screens in the heart are practical desktops - pity the computing power of the Personal Computer and the 128kbps sat link.
It is proof renouned with the locals who use it to study and to grasp up with their prime football teams.
Chief of the area Chief Chikanta believes it has remade his village.
"We were not able to to attain the world, outward Chikanta, outward the neighborhood even outward Zambia," he says.
"Since the internet came we are able right away to link up to any segment of the world and in Zambia by these machines here.
"We have our teachers who are right away able to talk with rural officers. Government officers who come to work here will be stating directly from here to neighborhood domicile that we were not able to do before.
"Every arch in Zambia wants this."
The arch wants a network to casing the local clinic, schools and shops and whilst access is still free, it is all smiles.
But at a few point, users will have to pay is to $800 (£518) a month heavenly body link. That is roughly 3 cows - the same as the bridal gift a spouse pays for his wife on their marriage day.
It is hoped the Macha draft that has already been rolled out to 7 villages will help link up hundreds more.
But either this will work is to rest of the nation will rely on either ordinary Zambians regard the web is value it.
