I've been listening to a podcast that was about how companies like #facebook push for something that can be understood as digital colonization.

They also mentioned how people resist against it. One of those resisting efforts, happening somewhere in #southafrica (I do not know where specific) where in rural areas digital infrastucture is missing. Instead of relying on false promisses by conglomerates they developed together with some hackers a system that fits their needs and is easily to deploy and very resource efficient.

It's a system that runs on the local computer in the different villages.
Informations are synchronized between them through usb sticks that are passed around.
Villagers are anyway traveling from one village to the other, and by that it's fast enough for anything not extremly time sensitive.

Have you heard of this? I want to know more about it, but don't know how it is called.