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Written by CB Team
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
 Three executives from 'Microsoft Unlimited Potential', whose mission is to bring technology to the estimated 5 billion global citizens without access to technology - gasp. Has essentially visited China to donate technology access to rural China and compete in the Gobi March, a grueling 150-mile footrace along China’s ancient Silk Road.
Racing were Senior Vice President Orlando Ayala, Debby Fry Wilson and William Calarese.
Prior to the race, they used this opportunity to make investments and donations through Unlimited Potential to bring technology access to rural China, including the donation of high-tech buses equipped with computers designed to travel from village to village.
One of those buses—an “InfoWagon”—met the team at the finish line, where local villagers got on board and saw and used a computer for the first time in their lives.
While in China, the group also opened a Partners in Learning school, launched a Family Education PC program for rural communities in Miyun county outside Beijing, and launched a program for digital literacy content and training in libraries and iCafés across Xinjiang province.
The executives used their participation in the Gobi March to raise funds for Save the Children and to support the victims of both the Sichuan earthquake and the Myanmar cyclone.
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