BIRD enables now unconnected rural communities to access education, healthcare, financial services, and new opportunities for strengthening businesses, and suppressing pandemics. BIRD also helps advanced countries learn from distant cultures, which have preserved the values, traditions, and knowledge now forgotten by many modern societies. BIRD contributes to achieving many of the SDGs.
BIRD was installed to support a mountain village in West Nepal. An L.110-compatible lightweight robust optical cable was installed across an unexplored jungle to reach mountain village in 2019 with the help of the local community in a DIY manner as seen in the photo below.