Wednesday 9 March 2011

Digital inclusion

Can you imagine a world without internet? Would you be able to do your daily activities without a computer?
Amongst a number of other purposes, computers help millions to perform more, to deliver more and make our world advance quicker.
So, nowadays, how can someone live a complete life without having access to the e-world? Do you think that the young people that have never touched a computer (digital excluded) will have the same opportunities as others who have?
On the end of the day, this missing knowledge will end up affecting you somehow. If not you, maybe your children or grandchildren.
Access to computer and internet means access to information.
For example, access for farmers to learn how to plant better and make their crops grow larger, which later will mean that more people will be able to eat better and cheaper; access for people who live near forests potentially will be translated into better environmental protection; access. For populations under repression might mean a way to speak out louder and reach for help, or to change their ways of living (see e example in Tunisia and Egypt);
Access to computers and internet means power to the people to evolve and make a better world.
So, if you would like to make the world in which you live a little bit better, you could start thinking about helping organisations that are focused on digital inclusion. Maybe volunteering to work in those organisations, donating equipment, money or just making more people know that such a world of digital excluded people exists.