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Local Access: IT Takes a Village
Manny Frishberg

Wearing a traditional feathered headdress and using a Power Point presentation, a leader of the Ashaninka Indian tribe from central Peru described how his village created a presence on the Internet. Mino, also known by his Spanish name Eusebio Castro, described the situation faced by the indigenous people living in the Perene River Valley at the mouth of the Amazon jungle. More than 50 Indian villages exist in isolated patches throughout the valley, removed from one another and from the coastal cities where political and economic power are centralized....

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