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Cory Doctorow / 7:38 am Fri, Jun 1, 2018

Vanuatu will use drones to deliver vaccines across its remote chain of tiny islands

Vanuatu and UNICEF have issued a request for tender inviting drone companies to bid on a contract to deliver vaccines along the nation's chain of tiny, remote islands -- 83 volcanic islands strung along a 1600km atoll. Read the rest “Vanuatu will use drones to deliver vaccines across its remote chain of tiny islands”

Cory Doctorow / 7:06 am Sat, Apr 16, 2016

Tiny South Pacific island to lose free/universal Internet lifeline

The way most of the world knows about Niue, a 100 square mile island in the south Pacific with a population of about 1,100, is because of its country-code top-level domain (CCTLD), which is the ubiquitous .nu. Read the rest “Tiny South Pacific island to lose free/universal Internet lifeline”