Gates promotes PC training in Colombia
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In his first trip to this violence-wracked country, Bill Gates said Microsoft was helping set up computer learning centers in areas where demobilized paramilitary fighters are in dire need of job training.
Given the low Internet penetration in Latin America, he said, the software company's focus for getting people online in the region is to promote computer centers in libraries.
The company said it was donating $1 million over three years to set up nine training centers in some of the Colombia's most conflictive regions.