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MISTICA-EN: Transv.: The Internet and the slum inhabitants

From: Lionel GERMOSEN-ROBINEAU ([email protected])
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 12:14:46 AST

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From: Lionel GERMOSEN-ROBINEAU <[email protected]>
Subject: Transv.: The Internet and the slum inhabitants
Date: 15/02/2000 12:14:46 -0400
Size of the original message translated from Spanish: 5516 characters, 98 lines
Keywords: article, Africa, socially discriminated groups, Internet

Source: Inter Press Service <[email protected]>

Abstract:

According to the article entitled "Internet-S�n�gal : Les habitants des bidonvilles se ruent sur l'Internet" (the inhabitants of the slum areas rush to the Internet), in the slum areas of Dakar, the inhabitants know and use the Internet.
Indeed, for about 2 years, thanks to the "Cyberpop" project of Enda Tiers-Monde and the IDRC, eight Internet centers have been created and a following through has been done with the local population. The Internet help them, among other things, to get information and to see their professional life from a different point of view.

URL of the original message translated into English: http://funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/production/c4/0133.html

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