Community multimedia centres

摘要

In the most remote regions, users of information and communication technologies connect with the rest of the world. On September 11 2001, when a Tuareg guide heard about the terrorist attack, he went to Timbuktu and sent an e-mail to ask about a New York doctor he'd met in the Sahara the year before. That gesture of solidarity, between individuals seemingly worlds apart, was made possible by the technology that the Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) in the Malian town makes available to the public.