Crossing the digital divide is something that is considered very important and each year as technology advances in the world it will become more and more crucial. Most of the volunteers who go and give of their time to volunteer in Honduras do not believe that the people there need the Internet, but they wish it was available for communication while they were there. Of course everyone agrees that in the future it will be essential to have Internet access and that at least the schools should have Internet available.
Luckily Hughes has a Satellite that is Internet Enabled about 200 miles off the coast Southwest of San Diego, straight up in Geo-sync. The coverage footprint could easily service all of Honduras and this could provide Internet access to anywhere in rural Honduras with only a satellite dish on top of a school. Of course this will cost money, but if the whole village can use one Internet account and the Country can pay for this with a group rate then communication will be possible anywhere. Now that is crossing the digital divide direct to the PC in the rural country.
By providing this in the rural schools the students can hook into the Quorum and Pangea Projects for social networking and eLearning online with other students around the world. This means they will have all the Internet access needed to learn how to build their villages, start businesses, get design plans and solve their own challenges in rural Honduras, a place that some people say is the middle of nowhere and rarely get anyone who has ever been there to disagree with that statement.