Re:The Cuban Internet Crisis
by aaggarwal on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @04:39PM
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While, I am sure governments at some level try to reduce poverty, but they can't do it without educating the people. Internet is rather cheap and provides a great way for the same.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".
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Bingo. Some years back i read about a project where young ladies in rural India was equipped with and trained in the use of a laptop loaded with medial and agricultural documents.
Then they would travel from village to village to help locals with various issues (saving crops from pests, figuring out minor illnesses etc).
Basically they were carrying around the equivalent of a library in a shoulder bag.
More recently an article mentioned a farmer somewhere in Africa that had gone to a netcafe to look up solutions to his failing crops.