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Article: Hi tech meets the bush.
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- African Business
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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The Okavango Delta is one of Africa's most beautiful natural areas but it is also one of the most remote. Until now, contact with the outside was only by expensive phone or fax. The introduction of e-mail has changed all that.
A safari camp manager sits outside her thatched chalet deep in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Outside a herd of elephants stroll the waterways of the world's largest protected wetland. Inside the manager is busy at a generator-operated computer reading her electronic mail. The Okavango might be marketed internationally as Africa's last untamed wilderness, but it is also a thriving example of high tech meets bush.
While Internet ...