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OCR: COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL BASICS barriers They cannot afford computers, cell phones, and Internet access or they are located in an economically depressed region where electricity not available to run digital devices, power satellite dishes. and pick up FIGURE 1-11 Internet signals But technology offers opportunity even to digital have- In less technically developed nots. For example, the Village Phone Project provides small loan to countries such as Uganda and entrepreneurs known as "village phone ladies' who sell minutes on their Bangladesh, women make cell phones to neighbors who cannot afford their own land lines or cell living by selling cell phone time phones (Figure 1-11 their neighbors Globalization is an ongoing process that will have far reaching effects on people in countries with de ...