http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/10/30/bringing-rural-brazil-into-the-internet-age Comments for "Bringing Rural Brazil Into the Internet Age?" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/10/30/bringing-rural-brazil-into-the-internet-age <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative">Co-ops</a> are big in Brazil. They are how small communities organize to help themselves, given that they are often overlooked by large companies. Recently I had the opportunity to visit just such a coop in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;q=valente,+brazil&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=-11.436955,-39.462891&amp;spn=55.348328,82.265625&amp;z=4&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1">Valente</a>, a town deep in Bahia in Brazil&#39;s Northeast. <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/10/30/bringing-rural-brazil-into-the-internet-age">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/10/30/bringing-rural-brazil-into-the-internet-age#comment Agriculture Telecommunications and IT Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:47:03 -0500 Al Hammond 4767 at http://www.nextbillion.net