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In 1980 the U.S. Agency for International Development initiated the AID Rural Satellite Program to explore the potential of telecommunications as a means of extending scarce expert resources and expanding educational opportunities to remote and rural areas. Building on simple, interactive, and inexpensive telephone-based technologies, the Program teleconferencing systems for use as a development tool. Three pilot projects in Indonesia, the West Indies, and Peru were implemented to test and demonstrate that audioteleconferencing should reliably and affordably support development activities in education, health, and agriculture. In Indonesia and the West Indies, distance education programs were established with national universities. Linking 13 distant universities in Indonesia and six universities in the West Indies, audioconferencing systems are used to provide academic courses to university students, to upgrade faculty skills through in-service training programs, and to facilitate administrative and institutional communication. The effect is to make the expert resources of each institution available to all members of the networks, this multiplying each professional's outreach and effectiveness. Over 15 courses are taught each semester to thousands of university students in Indonesia. The University of the West Indies trained over 500 doctors and nurses in 1985 and doubled the annual number of teaching certificates awarded because of expanded training opportunities offered by the teleconferencing system.