Trixi.com
09-01-2005, 14:08
I like the idea :-)
Internet arrives via rickshaw in India
Remote villagers go online with help of wireless and a bicycle
BITHOOR, India - For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.
Designed like temple carriages that bear Hindu deities during festivals, the brightly painted pedal-cart rolls into her village in India's most populous state, accompanied by a computer instructor who gives classes to young and old, students and teachers alike...
Read the full article at MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5725266)
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Internet arrives via rickshaw in India
Remote villagers go online with help of wireless and a bicycle
BITHOOR, India - For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.
Designed like temple carriages that bear Hindu deities during festivals, the brightly painted pedal-cart rolls into her village in India's most populous state, accompanied by a computer instructor who gives classes to young and old, students and teachers alike...
Read the full article at MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5725266)
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040816/040816_india_internet_hmed.hmedium.jpg