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Modern communication technologies, like radio and the internet, areessential tools if the Amazon rain forest is to be developed in an ecological,social and economically sustainable manner.These technologies will allow the various inhabitants of the Amazon forestto communicate with each other and to develop political and economic

strategies to ensure that the development is done in a sustainable way. Aswell, these technologies will allow the inhabitants to communicate withthose people throughout the world who recognize the importance of theAmazon rain forest to the ecological health of our planet.The problem is that these technologies are not readily available. The hot,humid tropical conditions of the rain forest present their own engineering

challenges. The sparse population of mainly poor and uneducated peoplesspread out over miles of dense forest is another challenge. Privatecommercial interests have done very little to introduce these technologies

since there is very little monetary reward and incentive.

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Womens EMFLORES rainforest meeting

What is needed is support from outside the rain forest community to helpsubsidies this work.I am a social communicator seeking a digital inclusion for the people of theAmazon. In 1988, when I was 23 and full of dreams, I moved to Mapia, a

community deep inside the Amazon that was founded some 28 years ago onspiritual and ecological principals. In 1998 I participated in establishing aradio station in Mapia. In 2000 I became active with the Net of Women inRadio (CEMINA-REDEH) and in 2003, with the help of Cyberela (anorganization to help give women a voice in cyberspace) I had build the firstsatellite antenna. The antenna has allowed the establishing of atelecommunication centre in Mapia.

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