On Tuesday 11 October 2005 19:20, ehewitt wrote: > What about reliable, affordable and accessible power?
This is mostly not a problem nowadays, although the things can certainly become worse as the Soviet-era power networks grow older (a great part of Moscow remained with no electricity for the whole day this August, which had never happened before). As to the conventional illiteracy, this is indeed a problem, especially among the homeless and the imprisoned (less than 1%, but still many people). It will be mentioned, but there aren't many 'digital' aspects there, so I won't be able to describe it thoroughly in my comparatively short overview. > Errol Hewitt > > At 17:04 10/10/2005 -0700, you wrote: > >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 > > -- Egor Grebnev ALT Linux Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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.
