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‘Why is it so hard to find on the map … ? … because it is out of this world’ reads the opening sentence in the tourist leaflet issued by the Mauritius Government Tourist Office. The colourful pages which follow seem designed to confirm the fantasy in the mind’s eye — Mauritius is a paradise: ‘No highrises, no concrete jungles. No charter flights, no mass tourism. No social or environmental pollution.’ No mention of computers being absent, simply because they are there, in rapidly increasing numbers.
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© 1990 David Hawkridge, John Jaworski and Harry McMahon
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Hawkridge, D., Jaworski, J., McMahon, H. (1990). Mauritius. In: Computers in Third-World Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20793-0_11
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