"The important finding is that a country's per capita
income level is likely to be a good guide to its capacity to adopt advanced forms of ICT.
Governments in low-income countries and many in middle income countries are still faced with
difficult choices between directing funding to ICT-related objectives on one hand,
and responding to urgent, basic needs including food, health, and education on the other hand.
Low-income per head is also associated with other barriers to the use of advanced forms of ICT.
These include high adult illiteracy rates, high proportion of a country's population in rural areas and
sparsely distributed population.
A sparsely distributed population, independently of income level,
is also another barrier to the diffusion of ICT.
The prospect of fewer potential customers means it is more difficult
to justify the costly investment in infrastructure. Papua New Guinea,
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Cambodia with low population
densities are likely to face particular economic disincentives
to investment in the extension of ICT beyond existing facilities.
This is not to claim that access to ICT is a luxury for the poor.
ICT in the form of the Internet is a powerful technology that will have
a long-term impact on the quality of life in developing countries.
The challenge for those in development is to tap the potential of
the new technologies or combinations of the old and the new to
work out more cost effective ways that ICT can be used."
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OUR Project
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Our ICT project aims to build cheap and high quality infrastructure that will allow most of
the people in the poor countries to access
the three important must of today:
Communication, E-learning, E-commerce.
Information is the basis for every aspect of our
everyday life, being it in the agricultural field,
in the medical field,in the working field.
The goal to achieve to fill the gap is not
exporting food enough to feed the poor countries(which of course is requirement number
first), but to help the people to learn how to produce food.
In this, building the right infrastructure is the "condicio sine qua non". |
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