It began with a glaring need... Rural and regional villagers all over Asia are being left behind as the "Digital Divide" gets wider and deeper every day. While urban dwellers have access to educational and other opportunities as technology advances, the people in the rural regions have watched from a distance. As education grows more important and as technology, and access to it, becomes increasingly essential to use technology to provide educational access to all... but in villages that do not even have telephone lines, how do you do this?

The answer: Sat-Ed's Learning Cafe . Each village Learning Cafe uses our Sat-Ed Digital Library to provide access to a multitude of educational content and courses for people of all ages; iPSTAR satellite to deliver high-speed broadband Internet; IPTV educational Video on Demand for those people who are not computer-literate; VoIP for making affordable calls; a business center for using e-government services; an IT professional to help train people and maintain computers locally; the opportunity to purchase low-cost computers; a partnership to sell goods made in the village to the markets all over the world; e-health information and a whole host of other services. Whether you are a farmer looking for information on new "best practices" in agriculture, an under-house silk weaver looking to get a better price for their silk or a student wanting to start University; the Learning Cafe has something for every villager.

Sat-Ed firmly believes that education is the way up and out of poverty. We are using advanced technology to better the lives of people in rural and regional Asia and helping to build bridges across the Digital Divide... One Village at a time.