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Mexico City rolling out digital media kiosks

August 7, 2011

According to Fox News Latino, Mexico City's government recently installed the first two of 25 planned digital media kiosks.

The kiosks, which will enable residents to download music, e-books and videos at inexpensive prices, were inaugurated at the Pino Suarez Metro station cybercenter and the Nuevo Volador Plaza by Historic Downtown Trust officials.

According to the website:

The Federal District's government wants to provide residents who lack credit cards and personal computers with an alternative way to download digital content at a low cost.

The kiosks will be placed at shopping centers around the city, with most of the units being installed downtown, to provide access to digital materials to low-income people.

The Metro cybercenters at the Balderas, Zocalo, Bellas Artes and Hidalgo stations, among others, will provide downloading services via the long-distance education project launched by the Mexico City Education Secretariat.

For more information on other government kiosk deployments, go to our Government research center.