Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on
the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age
Have-Nots -
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc024.htm
It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other
things. It also stresses the need to go beyond the one-size-fits-all
solution. One of the projects I found most interesting was the
"Bookmobile" part of Yahoo's Internet Archive project:
The project will do more than just give everyday Internet users full
access to some of the world's classic works, says Internet Archive
founder Brewster Kahle. In addition to being available online, the
digital books will be included on all of the archive's "Bookmobiles"
-- Internet-enabled trucks that print and bind books on demand for
the poor and underprivileged.
Kahle says those trucks, which have been deployed as far away as
Egypt and Uganda, are just the beginning. Using this print-on-demand
technology, "we want every school, and every neighborhood library to
be a million-book library," says Kahle.
As I have tried to stress, its not about the technology - its about
access to information and communications. After all, we don't call
it the Internet economy, we call it the information economy.
Ken
Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D.
Athena Alliance
911 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003-3903
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http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org
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