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Last week’s
Forum in South Africa to lower the price of broadband
Press release
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GOA (Frederick Noronha for APCNews) - Can Facebook and
YouTube help
the poor tackle their pressing problems? Or is this promise just hype?
One is faced with tough questions: Can “Web 2.0 tools” directly
influence the poor themselves? Would those interested in eradicating
poverty do better to start with the “situation” rather than the
“technology”? Or should one think big and dream of a network of
networks encompassing a billion children and their teachers, families
and friends — nearly all of the poor people in the world, and most of
the rich? BytesForAll co-founder and journalist Frederick Noronha takes
a look at the issue for APCNews. More
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BUENOS AIRES (Dafne Sabanes Plou for
APCNews) – “Training in ICT skills gets the community to start thinking
differently and to consider the sources of income available to them
more clearly. From a commercial standpoint, they become aware of the
fact that their products have to meet certain standards of quality in
order to be sold at higher prices,” says Aura Elena Plaza from Villa
Paz, an Afro-Colombian community in the Cali region. Dafne Plou reports
for APCNews on her first-hand experience of the impact access to
information has had on the lives of people in remote villages in Mali,
Africa and Cali, Colombia. More
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