Mauritania, West Africa has fairly good internet access in regional capitals. It costs less than $1/hour in most cases. Smaller towns often don't have electricity, so that's another battle.
Peace Corps volunteers such as myself are involved in helping Mauritanians acquire computer skills. It will take a while for most Mauritanians to get to the stage of using computers and the internet, but this is partly a simple problem of literacy. That is, they can't read, so they can't make the most of the internet. Granted, there is a lot of potential for using computers for literacy training. I'm finishing up with the Peace Corps in December and am looking for a job, if anyone knows of anything. I'd prefer to stay in Africa, but am willing to work on the east coast of the U.S. as well. Please email me if you would like me to send you my resume. Thanks. Shelagh Bocoum ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
