Mahabir Pun is a Nepalese teacher known for his extensive work in applying wireless technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas, also known as the Nepal Wireless Networking Project. After earning his master’s degree in education at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 2001, Pun returned to his native village of Nangi, in the Myagdi district of Nepal, with a dream: to provide better educational opportunities for the children in the remote Himalayan foothills. He upgraded the village school and made it not only a source of education, but also the hub of community development projects. In order to generate money to run the school and create job opportunities for the villagers, he started several income-generating projects in his village and neighboring villages such as yak- and rabbit-farming, cheese- and jam- making, a campgrounds operation and many others. But because there were no telephones or modern communication system of any kind in that region, Pun had to walk for several hours from one village to the next, to communicate with