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Internet training split dubbed 'mysterious'

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The government's decision to let two separate organisations run their own internet-learning programmes for underprivileged children will create problems unless students can choose between the schemes, according to one of the two groups.

Erwin Huang, chief executive of WebOrganic, said the 300,000 eligible students should be able to choose between his group's scheme and one from the eInclusion Foundation.

The groups will receive HK$100 million each to train underprivileged children who benefit from the government's internet-study subsidy.

Huang said the unprecedented arrangement left Hong Kong divided, with Weborganic responsible for western areas and eInclusion responsible for the east. He said the decision was 'mysterious' and 'questionable'.

'It is for the government to answer why it is so,' he said.

Because the two organisations have different pricing policies and computer hardware, the terms they can offer to the city's children are also different.

Huang's group offers computer-plus-internet packages from HK$250 a year for those eligible for the government's internet subsidy of HK$1,300. The eInclusion group offers a HK$128 per year option.

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