Trip report from the public interest technology colloquium the series four the so-called PIT which is a common collaboration between Arizona State University full Wollongong university from Australia and IEEE on technology and society The main focus was on free access to information as a basic human right including the combination of energy and information as the drivers for empowerment of rural societies. The PIT series has reached international attention and is now continued into a discussion on how we can get the basic energy supply in the basic information supply as policy.