Healing the Killing Fields

16/06/2005

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Episode Synopsis

From the killing fields of Cambodia to global school yards: How former Newsweek Tokyo bureau chief and Fortune correspondent, Bernard Krisher, linked the Internet to 60 remote Cambodian rural schools. (See: It Takes the Internet to Raise a Cambodian Village).In a life changing move, Krisher took his retirement to Cambodia, volunteering with World Bank to build 265 solar-paneled, computer-equipped primary schools, 60 of which are linked to the global community by an ingenious wi-fi motorcycle email delivery system.