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Does it help the homeless to turn them into Wi-Fi hotspots? | John Bird
The idea of homeless people as hotspots is unpalatable until you consider the opportunity for them to become content providersTurning homeless people into internet hotspots, as they're doing at the South by Southwest Festival (SxSW) in Texas this week, has a certain ring of familiarity to it. A woman who was running a gymkhana once asked me to supply her with 10 Big Issue vendors to clean up the ...
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The idea of homeless people as hotspots is unpalatable until you consider the opportunity for them to become content providers.
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