I really like this idea, and I want to eventually start up a project like this in Bulgaria. Particularly in the north, there is a lot of villages that have been completely abandoned. Finding the suitable location would be the first puzzle, but I think it would be really cool, call it the Steem Village, get investors together to buy or make arrangements with the title holders, well, find them first, and organise to get a really fat connection hooked up to it, but more or less, along the same lines, just a little bigger in scale, and add in some eco-village type stuff, and workshops, not just computers but also other tech type stuff, research etc.

It's something I am going to do, and it would make sense to get others involved. I look forward to seeing how this project progresses, and what problems you come up against and how you solve them.