Blogging on the Road
Reporting from the campus center via wireless network today. My laptop goes everywhere these days, and it's always nice to find a handy wireless network. Recently I've been seeing more news articles related to how dropping computer prices and new technologies like high speed wireless could be used to give developing countries a boost.
The gap between developing and developed countries is ever widening as developed countries pull ahead faster and faster with new technologies. How would populations who have never seen computers be able to catch up in the global marketplace these days? There are a few exciting solutions I have read about.
One of them is an initiative to put wireless networks into place in cities and towns who have never had internet access to begin with. SInce there isn't a wired infrastructure in place, it's not a matter of converting from old standard to new standards, and physical networks would be costly to implement. However, wireless networks could be just the thing. Companies are interested in working with small towns in developing countries to work on prototypes for some of the first city-wide wireless networks. Instead of being the last people to get these new technologies, research programs like this would bring rural communities into the new age of technology practically overnight (relatively speaking).
Another exciting program I read about this morning is an initiative to produce a $100 laptop that could be supplied to children in developing countries. Even cooler is that it will be open source...giving developing countries a chance to be on the forefront of what I anticipate will be the new era of computing. You can read about it here.
The gap between developing and developed countries is ever widening as developed countries pull ahead faster and faster with new technologies. How would populations who have never seen computers be able to catch up in the global marketplace these days? There are a few exciting solutions I have read about.
One of them is an initiative to put wireless networks into place in cities and towns who have never had internet access to begin with. SInce there isn't a wired infrastructure in place, it's not a matter of converting from old standard to new standards, and physical networks would be costly to implement. However, wireless networks could be just the thing. Companies are interested in working with small towns in developing countries to work on prototypes for some of the first city-wide wireless networks. Instead of being the last people to get these new technologies, research programs like this would bring rural communities into the new age of technology practically overnight (relatively speaking).
Another exciting program I read about this morning is an initiative to produce a $100 laptop that could be supplied to children in developing countries. Even cooler is that it will be open source...giving developing countries a chance to be on the forefront of what I anticipate will be the new era of computing. You can read about it here.
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