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MyGuy Internet Café is a Small Enterprise Development/Information and Communication Technology project that took place in Mosteiros, Fogo in 2008-2009. The startup funds for the project were raised from private donors through a proposal on this website. The result is a privately operated Internet Café which doubles as a space for community training in computer and Internet literacy.

Volunteers face a lot of ICT-related challenges in Africa that don’t exist in the US. Computer equipment tends to fail more frequently here, due to environmental factors like humidity and salt residue, and especially because of unstable voltage. When computer parts do fail, replacements are far less readily available here than at home. But one obstacle to Volunteers’ productivity with modern information and communication tools stands out – the scarcity and relatively high expense of Internet access.