TECHNOLOGY-CAMBODIA: Ingenious Efforts Widen Road to Information
Every morning, ‘motomen’ aboard donated motorcycles with Wi-Fi-equipped boxes ply five different routes around the province, starting from the central hub located at the Ezra Vogel School behind the provincial hospital in Banlung to collect e-mail from the satellite dish.
Passing by one village school to the next, the e-mailmen transmit the downloaded messages and retrieve outgoing mail. At the end of the day, they return to Banlung to hand over collected e-mails and web search queries for the satellite hub to relay to the Internet.
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Both communication tools and information resources play an important role to Cambodian people. Children need to access to basic education, young people and middle age groups of people need information resources for their personal development as well as communities. The better experienced-people can acquire knowledge, the more opportunities of less children face illiteracy. And in a society, where children are well-educated, the chance and speed of development happens.
The Internet relies hivealy on rich content people share among each others. The network, which was designed as a tool to transfer and spread knowledge from one continents, countries and villages to another. Sharing things for a better world… and a better tomorrow…