Gates’ $30M gift for Mexican libraries
Monica E. de Leon, who, along with her husband, Raymundo Pedraza, envisions Mexico adapting the TeleRead idea, write of a contribution from Bill Gates for computerization of libraries there. More details will most likely follow.
“Big news yesterday,” she says, “was a 30-million dollar donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to computerize Mexican libraries. President Fox was there to receive the money, and he said it’s one of his Government’s priorities to get people to go to public libraries to read.
“I don’t know exactly how they’re going to invest the money, but besides the 30 million from Memito Puertas (Spanish for ‘Bill Gates’) they already have 400 million more to spend.”
Checking Yahoo, I do see an April 17th story in the New York Times on Microsoft helping Mexico “develop digital community centers as part of a broader ‘eMexico’ initiative meant to bring the entire nation online by 2006.” The 484-word story isn’t free. It’ll cost you $2.50, but hopefully that can eventually change. See the item below about paid online news archives.
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