Todd Huffman recounts infrastructure work in Jalalabad, Afghanistan — inflatable satellite dishes and the country’s first municipal Wi-Fi built from local materials — framed as deliberately spreading geek culture. He describes mentoring Afghan teenagers through an after-school program and OpenStreetMap mapping projects, arguing locally trained geeks sustain projects after foreigners leave.
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