Beaming Books
It's a cheap stopgap for the digital divide: satellite transmission
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| In a test last year at the Mbita Point primary school on the Kenya-Uganda
| border, 60 youngsters got a taste of what's possible. A Swiss foundation
| called BioVision installed a satellite receiver at the school, gave out
| handheld computers running Linux-based software, and downloaded
| up-to-date curricula from Kenya's education ministry. BioVision says
| this approach is far cheaper than buying books every year.
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