| Internet Cafe Productive Projects
The Internet Cafes were constructed and serviced in partnership with Creative Networks (Enlaces Creative), a small business founded by Sergio Garnelo in 2001 that provides internet service to support several internet cafes in rural communities in western Mexico. Creative Networks received credit from the Banco de Mexico and the FPPC and NAID Center assisted the company to acquire additional loans to expand its services and capacity.
The Oaxaca productive projects were expanded in 2002-2003 to include five new technology centers or Internet Cafes, two of them located in Ayoquezco and one in Santa Ana de Valle, San Gertrudis, and Santa Cruz Mixtepec. The initial FPPC project in Santa Ana de Valle (Tlacolula District) focused on expanded textile products by and foreign markets for Santa Ana weavers. Eventually, the Internet Cafe would be the only FPPC productive project in Santa Ana de Valle.
Rita Mercedes Davila-Rey. Rethinking Mexican Home Town Associations: Oaxacan Migrant Social Networks and Transnational Community Economic Development Projects.
|
