I would think that the first priority should be literacy, for everyone. In the US we still have a high illiteracy rate for adults. Access to current technology and information is of no use if the user cannot read.
Mathematical literacy is also high on my list of priorities. Alfred Bork University of California, Irvine -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Egor Grebnev Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:13 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] A Digital Divide review: what to start with Thank you, this seems to be a good initiative. Also, I have decided to narrow down the scope of the problem to a number of individual aspects as I feel it is the only possible way to accomplish the task. The topics I am going to cover are as follows: 1) access to technology 2) access to information (includes networking) 3) acquiring the minimal ICT skills at school 4) acquiring the minimal ICT skills after school 5) the ethnical aspect (with the 160 ethnic groups and only few of them having computerized literacy this seems to be one of the specific problems of the country) 6) lack of specialized content 7) the gender aspect Maybe there's something extremely important left out. And if so, I will be glad if someone points this out. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
