Jamaica Opens an Internet Cafe for Farmers

As an example of how Internet cafe's help to close the digital divide, The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) has opened the first Internet cafe aimed at farmers.

In fact, JAS has a $10 million project to provide information systems even in the country's remote areas.

Now that the Church Street cafe facility is opened, Jamaican farmers and the public in general can come into the JAS facility and log on to the World Wide Web on the cafe.

The idea is that farmers can also be able to utilise the service to share information on crop production issues.

Looking at the issue at a broader view, this model, where a public organization provides an Internet cafe service to areas without sufficient broadband/Internet access, can be successful in other countries and regions as well.


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