Deborah Fallows is  a senior research fellow in PEW Internet& American life project and she have many interesting  articles about the usage of internet in China.

Her latest entry is about internet cafe in rural China: "I sought out my first rural internet bar last week, in the village of Wolong ...The internet cafe was pretty amazing ..l. It was tucked at the end of a row of shops facing a construction site behind the main road through town. We trudged there by negotiating muddy puddles and clambering over stacks of  rebar until we reached an open double door with a drooping homemade sign  announcing the internet...The space was a dark, dank, odiferous garage-like room, probably about 12 feet by 20 feet, with about 10 computers set up in two rows facing the outer, moldy walls. Old computers were set on simple tables, and each spot had a plastic chair".

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A help-group called Nethrodaya has set up a cyber café at Moggapair in Chennai. The cyber cafe is a first of its kind in the country, where visually impaired people can access Internet using the software called JAWS, provided by Bill Gates Foundation and Freedom Scientific.

G Govinda Krishnan, head of the help-group 'Nethrodaya', says, “For the past couple of decades, the visually impaired are finding it really tough to operate or to use computer media. It is not user-friendly, and we have to depend on someone to use the computers. The time has come where the Bill Gates Foundation and the Freedom Scientific have given a golden opportunity for the visually impaired to access computers."

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