This year was no exception. The workshops for English and French speaking students were in the same city as the main conference. They usually manage to have the tropic rain fall at night, and the temperature varies between cool and warm. When I look at what is happening with the spread of the Internet in other countries in Latin America, it is evident that it varies greatly between countries, but even more within the country. Capitals and regional cities are the first to be connected, with costs of connectivity varying greatly.
Charges are low, considering the speed of access.
For more details see his paper on the Internet Society conference Web site. Other large cities have ATM networks, fiber rings, and ADSL service on the horizon. Meanwhile, rural areas where population is less dense, where the commercial potential is less, and where even telephone and mass media infrastructure is weak, are not being served in most areas. One of the other tracks in the course was run by a Costa Rican NGO called Acesso Nacional that provides strategic training for network planners. They used a lot of tools and tactics from community organizing that really involved the participants in a major way.