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Today Internet is possibly the most widely used information source in the world. With an aim to reach Internet to those who are still unreached, several tech farms have come forward with novel ideas. Google Sundar Pichai CEO started experimenting with project Loon, which plans to launch a series of balloons that can help people get connected by beaming Internet signals down to base stations in 2013. One year later, the north-eastern Brazil, it ran its first test, using Long-Term Evolution (LTE), also known as 4 G, to connect a school computer in a rural village to the Internet. And in March 2014, Facebook announced plans to make internet available to regions of the developing world by using drones and an array of low Earth orbiting satellites. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also helped to create internet.org, a consortium of companies, working towards the same goal.

(The man who conceived the innovative idea of Outernet is Syed Karim, a library science drop-out and founder CEO of Outernet.) Then came up Outernet Inc., a Chicago based datacast company, being incubated by a New York City-based non-profit organization, the Media Development Investment Fund, with a plan to launch hundreds of low-cost miniature satellites, known as cubesats (cube satellites), into orbit around the Earth to create the Outernet, a wireless connection to the web available for free to every person in the world. Each cubesat receives data from a network of ground stations around the world and transmits this information on a loop until new information is received. This means using the Outernet will be more like watching a programme broadcast on TV. Outernet users will build a priority list for the information they want and make suggestions for new contents. In addition to providing free access, the Outernet will also be universally available, allowing people to bypass censorship laws prevalent in many countries. The Outernet, as envisioned, would effectively be a one-way connection data would flow from feeders to the sattellites which would broadcast to all below. As such, it would not provide e-mail or other chat facilities. But Internet-less users would be able to request for specific content by sending its operators an SMS text message or letter. Net-connected organizations can, however, pay a free to have their own materials added to broadcasts at specific times, providing a source of revenue.

The plan of launching hundreds of low cost miniature satellites that would create outernet is to 

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establish a wireless connection to the web available for free to every person in the world 
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use Long Term Evolution (LTE) to connect computers of rural village 
3
find Google's digitisation to provide access to millions of books 
4
scan millions of books and send them using e-mail facilities 

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