Today, anyone with an inexpensive computer, microphone, scanner and camera can create beautiful original art ñ music, paintings, drawings, photographs, video, dance, poetry and books ñ and instantly offer them for sale to a global audience through the Internet. Greenstar is working to take advantage of this capability in a radically new way.

It is helping to initiate businesses in small communities in the developing world by supplying solar powered technology, computers and wireless communications to villages that were formerly “off the grid.” They then help the inhabitants of these communities to create and promote a website and configure it for e-commerce payments and so seed a digital culture business.

The communities are now able to join the global economy and offer their unique cultural artefacts and develop relationships with people in the developed world. Despite their physical distance, visitors to the websites are able to listen to traditional storytelling, acoustic music, view artwork or purchase artefacts. Greenstar’s goal is to provide village people with an environmentally sound way to achieve economic independence, to preserve and advance their traditional cultures and to promote international peace and understanding. ‘Through the Internet, we have the chance to express, for the first time, a truly global human purpose ñ and to make this expression economically viable, with a built-in path to stability and growth,’ say Greenstar.

Greenstar recently launched a new solar-powered Internet-connected community centre in Patriensah in Ghana and sponsored a Digital Culture Festival recording original art, music, dance and poetry for distribution to consumers and businesses worldwide. The community will use the technology for education, improved health services and training, agricultural information, adult education, career development, job preparation and business, support for micro-credit programmes and for participation in the digital culture’ business model. Samples of the cultural artefacts may be found on the Greenstar website which links to the village.
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