August 17, 2004
WiFi Rickshaw Temple
From India, word reaches us that there is a high-speed rickshaw..er, a high-speed WiFi rickshaw..I mean, a rickshaw, that's got a temple-like carriage and that provides wireless Internet access. Or something..
From USA Today
BITHOOR, India — For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.
Students gather around a mobile Internet classroom in the northern Indian village of Bithoor.
Rajesh Kumar Singh, AP
Designed like temple carriages that bear Hindu deities during festivals, the brightly painted pedal-cart rolls into her village in India's most populous state, accompanied by a computer instructor who gives classes to young and old, students and teachers alike.
"By using computers, I can improve my knowledge," Sharma, whose parents plan to pull her out of school at 15, said in Hindi, before joining a class on Web cameras. "And that will help me get a job when I grow up."
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