Columbia Univ., Ericsson to connect African villages to the Internet.
Jeffrey Sachs, President of the Earth Institute and a former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General cites the mobile phone as an effective tool in the fight against poverty, particularly for poor communities across Africa.
The Millennium Villages project as the initiative is known is currently underway in different African countries.
The African digital villages' project is taking the form of mobile telephony and the roll-out of internet facilities.
The pilot phase of the project involves 80 villages in 10 African countries whose long-term ambition is to take mobile telecommunications and the internet to more than 400,000 people living in rural African communities.
//To read the complete article, click on the link below://
http://www.africanews.com/site/list_messages/12064
To comment on this article, please do so by joining The Forum
dewr
sd asdf