Popular western books such as The Bookseller of Kabul and the Dressmaker of Khair Khana speak to the entrepreneurial spirit of the Afghan people, and later works such as The Beauty School of Kabul illustrate the value of vocational training for women provided by such groups.
Mountain View's digital cartographers are training residents to use equipment like the Street View tricycle to take in the isolated territory's natural beauty while letting locals fill in the finer details (like roads, lakes and rivers) at community Map Up gatherings.