I thought I'd send out the latest news from the DDN site: Poor farmers in rural Peru are recipients of an initiative to build a wireless infrastructure between 14 area community technology centers. Using free open source software and affordable computer equipment, the centers, located in the Huaral Valley, will offer Internet access, equipment and training to more than 6,000 community inhabitants.
The $200,000 project is led by Cepes (Peruvian Centre for Social Studies) and features the Agricultural Information System at <http://www.huaral.org>. On this site, farmers can get important information like updated prices on produce, information on pest control and irrigation. Said Carlos Saldarriaga, technical coordinator at Cepes,"Throughout the last three years, the people have provided a vital thrust to the project; they feel it belongs to them." On the DDN homepage: http://www.digitaldivide.net and the original story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4071645.stm -Cedar -------------------------------------------------------- Cedar Pruitt Online Content Manager EDC Center for Media & Community http://cmc.edc.org cpruitt @ edc.org (617) 618-2185 --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
