It is true that the internet is growing rapidly in Africa (Leaders, August 8). The Fiankoma Project is working with schools in Ghana that pay $400 per month for a satellite connection of 128kb/s. At home in the UK, I get 1Mb/s (eight times faster) for $28 per month. If I correct for the difference in GDP per head ($269 v $24,219 in 2003) then in real terms our Ghanaian schools are paying over 14,000 times as much as per unit of bandwidth than I am. How about making information poverty history?
Prof Alan Cawson
Fiankoma Project