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[Fatimata]

Dear Sala,

Your story is similar to ours in African remote areas where internet access remains a difficult issue for undepriviledged people.  

Yes broadband access remains a true barrier to 21st century education

Best,
Fatimata

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"Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

>I would like to get my hands on a copy of both the South Korean Judgment as
>well as the American one.  On another note, this morning I was interviewed
>by a University of Leeds student who is writing her thesis on the impact of
>the internet on access to knowledge from traditional books to e books etc.
>She was surprised when I recounted that whilst the Internet was
>revolutionising the manner in which people were accessing knowledge through
>access to e books that some of the countries in the Pacific like Cook
>Islands and Kiribati for instance still have the most expensive internet in
>the world. Coupled with things like SPAM which chews on valuable bandwidth
>this is a major barrier when it comes to things like basic access, leave
>alone trying to download books etc.
>
>She was further surprised when I told her that there were parts of the
>Pacific where energy grids were unreliable and that this has an impact on
>internet penetration.
>
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