No power or running water – but digital books galore
by Mark Rice-Oxley in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda from Technology | The Guardian on (#1P7TF)
In the town of Rwinkwavu, technology is giving children access to hundreds of books and helping to empower adults
The first children you see are scything away in the cassava fields, or filling plastic cans with water from the pump to lug home.
But inside the local library in this town deep in the Rwandan hinterland, we skip forward a few centuries: e-readers, Wi-Fi, smartphones and digital books galore, everything from Dickens to Dante and Dostoevsky.
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