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Thursday, September 2, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
172 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Turner Isoun, has stated that it would benefit Nigeria tremendously if it joined the Global University System (GUS). According to the GUS, the system "helps higher educational institutions in remote and rural areas of developing countries to deploy broadband internet...and act as the knowledge centre of their community".

Category: 
Global South [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/24270 [5]
Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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