{"id":179,"date":"2002-06-25T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2002-06-25T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplicity.dk\/?p=179"},"modified":"2002-06-25T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2002-06-25T09:45:01","slug":"digital-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krag.be\/index.php\/2002\/06\/25\/digital-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/zachary0702.asp?p=0\">Ghana&#8217;s Digital Dilemma<\/a><br \/>\nTHe MIT Technology Review has this article on the Digitial Divide, and all the problems that come with it. It focuses on Ghana, a country that is close to my heart, and is fairly precise in its description of the issues.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing i disagree with is that the article insinuates that delivering IT to Ghana makes<br \/>\npeople less content because they learn more about the world at large.<br \/>\nWhile this is partially true, we (the west) have already forced them into global society, and isolating them is a delaying tactic at best (and is also severly condescending \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/charlie.balch.org\">Charlie<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s Digital Dilemma THe MIT Technology Review has this article on the Digitial Divide, and all the problems that come with it. It focuses on Ghana, a country that is close to my heart, and is fairly precise in its description of the issues. 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