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Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, p. 1261
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161105
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Editorial

Broadband Internet for Africa

Calestous Juma1 and Elisabeth Moyer2

Imagine a major research university with tens of thousands of students trying to access the Internet through a single U.S. household connection. That is the present situation in most African universities. Students there theoretically have access to Science through several journal archives for the developing world. In practice, most could never download it.

1Calestous Juma is a professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. E-mail: calestous_juma{at}harvard.edu.

2Elisabeth Moyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and a former lecturer at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. E-mail: moyer{at}uchicago.edu.

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