Five months after its launch, the Ta Van pilot project – which is free to the villager’s users – still faces challenges. For a start, Ms Phuong’s enthusiasm for the internet does not seem to have spread like wildfire in Ta Van, which is home to about 3,000 people from three Vietnamese ethnic minorities. Many seem to be still adjusting to much more basic technology in a village where the first fixed phone was installed at the post office in 2004 and which was only hooked up to the regional electricity grid in 2005.
“My parents have no idea or interest in the internet, but I guess that’s normal because they’re just old people,” says Ms Phuong.
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