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Various international organizations, but also some private
companies will benefit from contributing to bringing this connectivity to those areas of the world, he explained.
"Already today wireless technology is developing because people don't have fixed telephone lines or GSM or
wireless phones can not or don't provide sufficient bandwidths for that type of communication.
"The best connectivity you can have is 14.400kbps. So it's very slow." Access to community facilities
with computers would be helpful, he said, "especially in countries where families are big and a lot of people
are living together. If they may have one or two computers in the community, they can make something out of it.
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"In villages where families are big and a lot of
people are living together, community center-based access to computers would help. They would only need one or
two computers in such communities. Even re-conditioned old ones that you and I might throw away.
"But the problem is, of course that in many such areas, valuable goods can be easily stolen. For instance,
in those areas that have copper in the ground there are people stealing it just because it has some value."
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