In addition, the portal offers the Internet's first instant translation features embedded within an e-mail browser. Connectivity initiatives in Africa are also being pursued outside the classrooms. Programme SDNP that basically provides access to information to Africans and other third world people engaged in different economic activities. In Cameroon, where one in every 200 people has a phone and one in every 3,000 has an Internet connection, the SDNP is making a change. This fee enables members to access both email and Internet.
Members usually send in emails requesting certain topics.
The SDNP does research, downloads the appropriate web pages, bundles them and sends them out as attachments by email. In addition, SDNP facilitates free training to enable farmers apply skills learned from the new technology. The SDNP helps members create small web pages of less than one megabyte which they can host with SNDP website free of charge. Basically, Africa's connectivity is going hand in hand with identification and application of activities that can improve the living standards of Africans. The issue is to identify the people's economic, political and social strong points and apply them on the Internet for economic pay-offs.