Macedonia dreams of one nation, wireless
"KANATLARCI, Macedonia — Thirteen-year-old Nustreta Mimovic's hand trembled as she placed it over the computer mouse. Slowly she dragged the mouse and watched the screen, as her fellow students looked on.
"'I'd love to know how to use it, but I don't have a computer,' she explained, giving up the controls to another pupil.
"Nustreta's unfamiliarity with technology is common in Macedonia, a poor former Yugoslav republic where it is estimated that as little as 4 percent of the population has regular access to computers and the Internet.
"Within a year, if the government has its way, those figures could be turned around with the creation of a wireless Internet network that will be the world's largest, covering the entire nation.
"Supporters of the network believe that it will deliver more than just a means of mass communication. They hope it will provide new opportunities to ordinary people, schools and businesses in communities like Kanatlarci, one of hundreds of remote villages spread across this mountainous nation.
"Government officials believe affordable access to the Internet could help transform a moribund economy, but that aim is proving difficult to realize ..."
NY Times
Tagged: internet, globalization
"'I'd love to know how to use it, but I don't have a computer,' she explained, giving up the controls to another pupil.
"Nustreta's unfamiliarity with technology is common in Macedonia, a poor former Yugoslav republic where it is estimated that as little as 4 percent of the population has regular access to computers and the Internet.
"Within a year, if the government has its way, those figures could be turned around with the creation of a wireless Internet network that will be the world's largest, covering the entire nation.
"Supporters of the network believe that it will deliver more than just a means of mass communication. They hope it will provide new opportunities to ordinary people, schools and businesses in communities like Kanatlarci, one of hundreds of remote villages spread across this mountainous nation.
"Government officials believe affordable access to the Internet could help transform a moribund economy, but that aim is proving difficult to realize ..."
NY Times
Tagged: internet, globalization
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