Is net revolution the need in Africa?
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# The high-profile technology leaders from around the world are making commitments to improve technology and telecommunication in the continent. # The International Telecommunication Union has called for “immediate action”, saying African leaders must ensure the continent is attractive to private investment. # More than 300 million live in extreme poverty, where the poorest have little choice about how they make their living # Millions die as a consequence of invasions and wars sponsored by the major powers trying to gain control of the Africa’s mineral wealth.
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The continent has been considered as the poorest in the world. A place which needs firstly food, clothing and shelter for all, may not need an internet revolution. Agreed that the world is moving ahead with technology but places which are doing so have citizens who are secured with the basic needs of life and with education and employment. First, providing education and making the people of Africa computer literate is essential. By just institutionalizing different mode of obtaining internet and by providing better interconnectivity, the people wont get their bread to survive on and they wont get all that they need to survive a healthy life in a disease struck continent.
What Africa today needs in my opinion is, to eradicate hunger, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and more importantly health issues. The malnutritioned children need food, the ailing adults need medicines and the youth need education and employment. According to me revolutionizing net wont give them all these things. Charity organizations have to stand up and fight to first make Africa into a developing continent. The world first has to bring the continent in a level competent enough to compete with other countries by providing them with better lives and then provide them with technology which will then take their dreams to greater heights.
Quote Visioninside> ”First, providing education and making the people of Africa computer literate is essential.” but can’t that be done simultaneously?? or internet is that tough to handle??
You mean to say while we are ”eradicating hunger, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and more important health issues.” ...internet should not be made available to them.
All right..let’s see in how many years will we be able to eradicate all the problems mentioned by you...5 years? ....10?...15?...100? not sure? but let’s see how will internet help the ’continent considered as the poorest in the world’
won’t it be helping to attract more investors into the continent and with that won’t it be helping in upgrading the economy of the continent...with that won’t they be handling the hunger crisis themselves...and won’t they be more aware of their health issues..
then u say Charity organizations have to stand up and fight to first make Africa into a developing continent. how about they stand themselves to fight to make their continent a developed one...won’t it be a good idea?
what say?