PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C Better known for producing poverty and political mayhem, the Western Hemisphere¡¯s least developed country has made a surprising entry into the high-tech world with its own Android tablet.
Sandwiched between textile factories in a Port-au-Prince industrial park next to a slum, a Haitian-founded company has begun manufacturing the low-cost tablet, called Surtab ¡ª a name closely resembling the Haitian Creole for ¡°on the table.¡±
Unlike the factories next door where low-paid textile workers churn out cheap undergarments for the U.S. market, Surtab workers are equipped with soldering irons, not sewing machines.
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