At one end of the trendy Cafe Aprendiz, patrons enjoy dishes such as three-cheese ravioli and salmon salad with cucumber, but it’s not the food that has drawn a group of older women seated in the back. They’ve come for the computers.They are part of OldNet, a program that has seniors learning computer skills from high school students at a PC lab tucked in the back of the cafe. While other diners eat and converse, a half dozen women surf the Internet, chat with friends, and send e-mail to relatives.”These are the poster girls of the program,” boasts teacher Izabel Marquez, pointing to one woman who just did her tax return and another that was the first in the bunch to get an MP3 player.
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Brazil: Digital inclusion, but how?
At one end of the trendy Cafe Aprendiz, patrons enjoy dishes such as three-cheese ravioli and salmon salad with cucumber, but it’s not the food that has drawn a group of older women seated in the back. They’ve come for the computers.