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The price of €1 a day is highly symbolic: Other projects offer young people the chance to take lessons and pass their driving
test for €1 a day, while in 2004 the government sponsored a project to offer university students a laptop for €1 a day. That
project will continue, the government announced, with the goal of getting laptops into the hands of 35% of students. Between
September 2004 and September 2005, the proportion of students with laptops rose from 8% to 22%, according the government delegation
on Internet use.
At the same meeting, the government agreed on plans to make it easier for rural inhabitants to get broadband Internet access,
by supporting the rollout of WiMAX wireless services where low population density makes the provision of DSL service uneconomic.
The government also pledged its support for an antispam group, Signal Spam, which launched a public information site on Monday
at http://www.signal-spam.fr/. Later this year, the group will begin operating a service for reporting unsolicited commercial
e-mail.
The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.
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