I could not agree more with Dave.
However he challenge lies in living with the fact that education and
literacy levels are issues , and given that how does one solve the digital
divide probems.
Are the best solutions video conferencing led ? (this does work much better
when literacy levels are
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Respected Bajwa
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I appreciat your keenness about these matters. I want to bring a point in
hi DDN community -
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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
You may want to look at the general business case for serving the
poor as customers and entrepreneurs - as developed by CK
Prahalad. It is as true in the specific case of digital technology
as it is in the general case.
Also, think of it this way: Metcalfe's law states that the value of a
