The Brazilian government recently announced that they will make free satellite internet available to native Indian tribes throughout the Amazon region as a way to enhance monitoring, management and conservation efforts. Basically, using tribespeople to as environmental police against threats such as illegal logging.
The goal is to "encourage those peoples to join the public powers in the environmental management of the country," Francisco Costa of the Environment Ministry said in a statement. "The government intends to strengthen the Forest People's Network, a digital web for monitoring, protection and education."
Local governments will be charged with the task of installing telecenters in various places, including deep in wilderness areas on indigenous land, and the federal government will then supply satellite internet connections to those sites.
There are concerns that the arrival of connectivity may erode the tribes' traditional way of life but, as Ailton Krenak, a member of the Krenak tribe as well as the network, told MSNBC,"I don't like computers but I don't like planes either," he said. "What can you do?"
Source: Worldchanging.
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