Thursday, July 05, 2007

Awaiting Internet Access, Remote Brazilian Tribes Debate Its Promise, Peril

Monte Reel writes in The Washington Post:

When the sun sinks behind the palm and mango trees, candlelight flickers throughout a tiny village of thatched huts where about 100 Xavante Indians live.

The villagers here lack electricity but not technical ambition. Just beyond the semicircle of huts sits a new one-room school building, and a place inside has already been reserved for an eagerly anticipated local milestone: the village's first computer.

More here.

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