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Sunday, April 02, 2006
African colleges merge onto Internet fast lane - LAURIE GOERING, Chicago Tribune
Alfonso Pene, an information technology student at Eduardo Mondlane University, spends a lot of time on the Internet researching computer programming languages. But the university's slow connection speed makes doing his homework an exercise in frustration. "It's too slow. It takes forever to download applications," said the 24-year-old senior, slouched in front of a terminal in one of the university's computer labs. While he is waiting, he says, "sometimes I walk around, have something to eat." That is about to change as a result of an effort by six major U.S. foundations - including the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation - to boost Internet bandwidth at African universities.
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