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Hannah N. Jukovsky, a sophomore at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School who boycotted the April sitting of the exam, agrees the exam's efforts at ensuring accountability are misguided...
...Latin America bureau chief for US News and World Report, a photojournalist studying Cuba and Haiti and a Washington Post staff writer are among newly selected Nieman fellows, the Nieman Foundation announced yesterday...
...easy to see why these figures have many governments, development agencies and human-rights organizations worrying about a growing "digital divide" in Latin America between those with money and access to information and those with neither. To span that chasm, Latin governments are embarked on a number of initiatives that will help citizens join the wired world. Among them is a project funded by the Mexican state of Aguascalientes and the Inter-American Development Bank that placed computers in all public secondary schools in the state and wired more than half of them to the World Wide...
...Panama, Swedish-Panamanian entrepreneur Nils Petterson is set to open @Altec Cyber Park, Latin America's first hosting provider, which will be able to store 600,000 different sites on its 10,000 servers. For the first time, Latin Americans won't have to waste precious minutes reaching computers in Europe or the U.S. for websites stored there. Access, says Petterson, will be 300 times as fast and 50 times as cheap. Both these projects are helping build an Internet backbone that will speed up data transfer and bring down the cost of metered calls. New satellite and cable technologies...
...Latin America's 4% household penetration of personal computers seems less relevant every day. This year, for example, TV set-top boxes that, for $100 to $200 each, can turn a television set into a computer screen are due to appear in Brazil. Wireless broadband expansion will turn Brazil's ubiquitous cell phones into tiny screens. "Latin Americans have been early and avid adopters of technology," says Antonio Bonchristiano, CEO of the e-commerce company Submarino.com "The key to growth is the cost of a Web device...