Dear Cindy, My feeling is that Digital divide has a positive correlation with 1.literacy / Education (language may be compounded here) 2.infrastructures 3.econmics / prosperity The fundamental problem is illiteracy and absence of basic education in the developing world. They even do not know to read and write in their own native languages and depends largely on the village interpreters (most of the time a school teacher or the post master). By changing contents language education level will not come up, neither digital divide would be bridged. Roop Dave
Cindy Lemcke-Hoong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Dave, Most of what you analysed I agreed. Not all. I especially have problem to understand the opening statement on your post. Quote "In my view "Language" and "Digital Divde" are two separate things." It would be the same as saying cultures has nothing to do with human beings??? My arguement is based on this particular discussion on Multilingualism in Cyberspace. Digitail Divide consists of two parts: software and hardware. Most concentrate on the hardware portion, but the software (content thus language) is what drives the knowledge. If I am not mistaken? Cindy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= [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. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. _______________________________________________ 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.
