FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

“We have just made the Internet much more accessible to millions of people in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia.”

The Finnish government has become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right. With 96% of citizens online the mandate was necessary in order to improve the availability of internet in Finland’s remote rural areas, improve the quality of life as well as boosting business and encouraging online banking

”I’m getting 200 new friends every day,” the cardinal said. ”You have to go where the people are and if the people are on Facebook you go there too” according to Zenit

Aidan Rooney, CM writes, “Recent research informs us that web 2.0 (social networking, blogging, web- and pod-casting, video) skills are being learned by low-income students at a rate similar to those of wealthier students. Servants of the poor need to look into this. What the research says about education can be applied to formation, youth [...]

Mar 1, 2007 United Nations officials met with Silicon Valley executives to discuss the “digital divide,” the growing gap between the world’s wealthiest and most computer literate people and the impoverished masses without Internet access, an Associated Press report said. The report said the meeting, organized by Intel and the UN’s Global Alliance for Information [...]

(AP) — The ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a small step forward. More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging. The One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the [...]