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From: Yacine Khelladi ([email protected])
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 17:17:19 AST

Varias cositas,
entre otras "un si Bill lo dice".....
Yacine

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Bill Gates Says Computers Won't Help World's Poor (11-02-00)
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/gate19.shtml

D. Richman, of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer covered a conference on
the digital divide in Seattle. The theme was technology making
entrepreneurs and consumers out of people earning less than $1 a day.
"Let's be
serious," Gates said. "Do you people have a clear view of what it means
to live on $1 a day?" Gates went on to say that health care and
literacy
are more important than computer access.

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> McConnell International http://www.mcconnellinternational.com McConnell
> International manages a global, electronic, action-oriented, Information
> Technology Coordination mailing list under the auspices of the United
Nations
> Working Group on Informatics. Many of the nearly 120 participating countries
> have developed excellent web pages to promote electronic governance and "e-
> society."

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> Slum Children and the Internet: An experiment in access
> (10-26-00)
> http://www.iicd.org/base/show_story?id=3778
>
> Use of the Internet in India is confined to affluent urban areas but it is
> expected that demand will spread throughout the country. Many have
worried that
> limited training and low levels of literacy will hinder the usage of
Internet
> in the subcontinent. However, slum children in New Delhi, were provided
with
> unsupervised and unguided Internet access in their settlements and
> observed results in the first month indicated...

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