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Macedonia Leads World With Wi-Fi

11/14/05

BBC News published article about the project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that has
brought broadband internet access to hundreds of remote villages in Macedonia by putting the country's 460 primary and
secondary schools online within the Macedonia Connects Project. The computers for school laboratories were donated by the
People’s Republic of China.

"What we have is an ability to transmit wirelessly throughout the country, and then put a piece of equipment at the school
anywhere in this country. Those people, once they have that piece of equipment, will have internet connectivity,” said Glenn
Strachan, project director of Macedonia Connects.

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