It has never been easier to build a civil administrative system from the ground up, for three main reasons. First, the tools to organize such a system have become cheap, abundant, and dependable. With a raspberry pi and a e-ink display, you have a computer requiring low energy, using free open-source softwares, and harsh-conditions proof. Second, network are getting easier to set up. While Google and Facebook are think of drones and air balloons to provide internet access to the masses over large areas, common antennas are now cheap, efficient and easily movable. Third, people in developing countries are massively equipped with basic yet reliable mobile phones.
Meanwhile, many regions of the world are currently undergoing endemic violence. Most of the undertaking conflicts will eventually come to an end, leaving those territories with broken infrastructures and often without sound any public organisation. The question we will be exploring is to what extent, using modern yet cheap technology, by tying bits and pieces together, new governments could hack their way into building a state.