May 2006
Beaming Books
It's a cheap stopgap for the digital divide: satellite transmission.
By David Talbot
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| Eleven-year-old boys in Mbita, Kenya, view textbooks on handheld PCs last year. (Courtesy of Eduvision.) |
Many of Africa's cities and populous areas are reaping extraordinary benefits from new cellular telephone networks and Internet access. But it will be many years before rural interior areas -- where the majority of Africans live -- follow the cities into the information age. Children there don't even have recent-edition textbooks, much less Web-connected computers.
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