For all those that are in developed countries, imagine a day without a computer let a lone not having a computer at all. With the increase in global communication, you will see computers almost in every house in developed countries, in schools, Internet cafe or having a personal computer (laptop, tablet etc). The dependency in computers has increased compared throughout the years and it has become almost unlivable without them.
Well, this is quite different from developing countries where many people in the developing world have only limited access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
The gap between those who have access,and those who don ’t is known as the digital divide.
This divide is most pronounced between more and less developed economies and includes all aspects of ICT,including phone access,PC ownership and internet usage. Phone access has rapidly increased in the past decade with the spread of mobile phones;around a third of people in the developing world now have access to phones.But PC ownership and Internet usage has risen more slowly, with less than 4 percent of people in Africa using the Internet,compared with 63 percent in the UK.
"A computer can cost the equivalent of up to eight years ’ income for an average person in Bangladesh " It is easy to take access to computers and the internet for granted. We can
sometimes forget how useful email is, or how valuable the internet is as a learning or communication tool. Most office employees would find it difficult to imagine how laborious it would be to record and analyse data if they didn ’t have access to a computer,or how difficult it would be to get a job if they didn ’t know how to use a computer.
The gap between those who have access,and those who don ’t is known as the digital divide.This divide is most pronounced between more and less developed economies and includes all aspects of ICT,including phone access,PC ownership and internet usage. Phone access has rapidly increased in the past decade with the spread of mobile phones;around a third of people in the developing world now have access to phones.But PC ownership and Internet usage has risen more slowly, with less than 4 percent of people in Africa using the Internet,compared with 63 percent in the UK.
"A computer can cost the equivalent of up to eight years ’ income for an average person in Bangladesh " It is easy to take access to computers and the internet for granted. We can
sometimes forget how useful email is, or how valuable the internet is as a learning or communication tool. Most office employees would find it difficult to imagine how laborious it would be to record and analyse data if they didn ’t have access to a computer,or how difficult it would be to get a job if they didn ’t know how to use a computer.
My fellow young people why not help with the digital divide by donating a computer that you no longer use to a company that like computer aid who work very hard to bit the digital divide by getting you and companies to donate computers that are sent to schools, companies that wnat to brigde the communication knowledge divide in developing country. Check out www.computeraid.org
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