Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Information Poverty and the Wired World
The internet has become a big factor in shaping the world. Although it has been a method to connect everyone together, there are some places that still do not have this kind of advanced technology. People think introducing the internet to developing countries could help them to grow economically and culturally, but in reality its effect is not so great. The gaps between the developing countries and developed countries have become greater, causing issues for those who cannot access this new age information. Some countries will continue to stay back. We need to realize the seriousness of poverty in some of these places. I believe that we shouldn't worry too much about the effect of introducing the internet but we should first attempt to stabilize the countries. With all the money that the world wastes on useless things such as wars and consumer products could have helped out poverty, hopefully bringing us all together economically socially and politically.
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I find the internet to be a very threatening entity. I reflect back on the google incident where China was a highly censored internet, yet someone was able to hack into the industrial secretes. I thought about attaching a link but when you search this it shows articles from several countries claiming an attack came from China.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good post. How do you help the poorer countries, though? I do not think that giving handouts can work well - it has not for decades.
ReplyDeleteIf you teach a man to fish instead of just giving him fish, you have helped him infinitely. I'm not sure how this can be applied to whole countries, but the flow of information (through the internet), in my view, is a very good place to start. They say knowledge is power.