Nicholas Negroponte's initiative "One Laptop Per Child" seems to be the perfect example of fighting against the digital divide concerning the access to computer technology. By mainly focusing on the "developping" countries as a target for the project, its founder is giving a more social and humanitarian image to the idea. Starting with countries like Mexico, Peru and others in Latin America, Negroponte is aiming to produce more than 1,000,000 units per month so as to provide the populations who are deprived from technology with the most essential device of our generation, computers. However, I see this initiative as a meer effort compared with the goal that is trying to be acheived. Supplying laptop computers is not the aim, but introducing a whole new ideology of information necessity to the lives of the remote.
I feel somehow embarrassed when I think of my country as a follower in the field of information spreading and distribution. Although we notice some noble works of facilitating access to computers and the Internet, I see there is much more work to do. People in my country are more preoccupied by water distribution and providing electricity and light to the rural areas, rather than focusing on the wide national ignorance of Moroccan people in terms of knowledge and information.
I beleive we are still far from the model of Internet access and computer literacy the governments of the world want to acheive for their populations. And moreover, Morocco does not seem to be the main target of many world wide Non-Governmental (or New Governmental) Organizations.
All in all, the initiative of "One Laptop Per Child" is a step forward toward the spread of knowledge in an information age that needs to spread to the world population as quickly as possible.
I feel somehow embarrassed when I think of my country as a follower in the field of information spreading and distribution. Although we notice some noble works of facilitating access to computers and the Internet, I see there is much more work to do. People in my country are more preoccupied by water distribution and providing electricity and light to the rural areas, rather than focusing on the wide national ignorance of Moroccan people in terms of knowledge and information.
I beleive we are still far from the model of Internet access and computer literacy the governments of the world want to acheive for their populations. And moreover, Morocco does not seem to be the main target of many world wide Non-Governmental (or New Governmental) Organizations.
All in all, the initiative of "One Laptop Per Child" is a step forward toward the spread of knowledge in an information age that needs to spread to the world population as quickly as possible.
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