Web Access for All Rwandans

"We simply have to bring the Internet into each of these huts, and the rest will fall into place."

It's probably not as simple or easy as that -- there's the question of literacy and computer literacy -- but damn, I wish our government was as visionary as this man. Can you just imagine our rural villages transformed into hubs of online entrepreneurship?

The last paragraph of the article says so much about our situation.
 
Another advantage of the advent of mobile communication, according to Murenzi, is that "if people spend more time on the phone, they have less money left over to get drunk at night. This relieves pressures on the healthcare system."
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Well that's one way to look at it! Maybe that's Ivy's theory too, would explain SA's prices!
 
texo said:
It's probably not as simple or easy as that -- there's the question of literacy and computer literacy
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Are you assuming that virtually nobody in poor African countries can even read? According to CIA world factbook, Rwanda's literacy rate is around 70%, which certainly doesn't seem so awful to me that it would present a serious problem here.
 
Wish he would invest here, a small province in SA or a devision, is the same size as Rwanda.
 
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