Intel unveils the world's most remote digital city

In one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, the Amazon, Intel
Corporation has created a wireless, high-speed Internet network for residents to
access vast resources of medical, educational and commercial knowledge through
computers. The project is part of the Intel World Ahead Program, an initiative
in which Intel plans to invest more than $1 billion globally over the next five
years to accelerate access to computers, the Internet and technology for people
in developing communities.

The digital transformation of Parintins, a town on an island in the Amazon
River, is expected to improve the healthcare and education of its 114,000
residents and advance the lives of future generations. “Technology has
expanded what is possible in Parintins,” said Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel
at a dedication ceremony in the Amazon rain forest. “It is now a place where
wireless broadband links to the Internet bring the expertise of specialists,
sophisticated medical imaging and the world's libraries to a community
reachable only by airplane or boat.”

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