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| South Africa’s Deputy
Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom, and Intel Chairman
Craig Barrett inaugurate a high-performance computer designed to assist
HIV and AIDS research at the Meraka Institute on Dec. 10. Intel and HP
donated the supercomputer to push the limits of scientific discovery to
accelerate the creation of treatments and cures. |
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| A student at the Maope
Secondary School in Bela Bela, South Africa shows Intel Chairman Craig
Barrett her latest assignment at the inauguration of the area’s first
computer lab with wireless, high-speed links to the Internet on Dec. 10.
The mayor of Bela Bela, Mrs. Ledwabe, and the district mayor, Mrs.
Kekana, look on. |
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| Bela Bela, South Africa
craftsman, Robert Hlongwane, shows Intel Chairman Craig Barrett his new
virtual storefront, www.robertscrafts.co.za. Intel and local technology
companies provided a laptop computer, Internet connectivity and computer
training to help the craftsman expand his business. |
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| Intel Chairman Craig
Barrett hands out Christmas gifts to children at the Bosele Dawn Drop-In
Centre in Bela Bela, South Africa on Dec. 10. Intel plans to sponsor
Internet connectivity for the facility, which provides meals and day
care supervision to more than 200 orphans. HP will donate new computers
to this community centre. |
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| A boat transporting the 60
donated desktop PCs to Parintins, Brazil, pulls into port. |
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| Before the installation of
the high-speed computer network, Parintins, Brazil, is electronically
connected to the outside world through a satellite uplink that enabled
dial-up Internet access. Intel Corporation worked with Embratel, a
Brazilian telecommunications company, to improve this satellite uplink
to handle high-speed Internet. |
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| Chinese farmer Wang Huaping showed Intel Chairman Craig Barrett how he used his computer to access information about weather patterns to increase yields and find new ways to sell his crops. Barrett visited the farmer’s house in the Shijingwei Village near Zhan Jiang City on Oct. 30. While visiting China’s rural interior, Barrett announced Intel’s plans to support the government’s New Countryside Initiative. The project is part of the Intel World Ahead Program, an initiative in which Intel plans to invest more than US$1 billion globally by the end of the decade to improve education and accelerate access to computers and the Internet. |
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| Dr. Osama El-Gamil demonstrates the first telemedicine capabilities available in Oseem, Egypt to Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett on Dec. 17. Intel donated computers and telemedicine equipment and installed a state-of-the-art WiMAX wireless network to provide Internet access to the town’s health care center on wheels. Local doctors plan to use the computers and Internet connection to transmit electronic medical records and video conferences, so patients can be diagnosed by specialists hundreds of kilometers away. |
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