At 12:41 PM +0100 1/24/05, Raffaele Moles wrote:
If you are interested in such a topic I will try to send you more details about whatever you'll ask.
Please do. In fact the work Raffaele talks about is so salutary, I thought it worthy of a re-read.
Raffaele Moles wrote:
I'm working on Digital Divide related topics.
I have spent one year (Oct 2003-Oct 2004) in Sri Lanka, as volunteer coordinator in the startup of an IT Training Center (ITTC). The ITTC is managed by a local ngo and we started it from scratch, involving more than 500 students. We built the ITTC starting with 8 desktops and after seven months we had 50 laptops (Pentium 1), a Local Area Network (LAN) with one server (Pentium 2), an Internet connection shared on the LAN, a Database and an internal web site with administration, teaching and learning tools (such as online resources, online tests, etc.). One of the main goals was the training of local people as future teachers, also able to run the school after the volunteers. I was the only foreigner until May and after new volunteers came from Japan, in May 2005, and from Spain, in August 2005, and again from Japain in Oct 2005. So far, the ITTC has had a very strong impact on the local community, allowing many students (almost none of them had touched a computer before) to have both basic literacy and a deeper touch in IT. Of course we also had to face some questions on the relationships with local attitude, surely not so "frenetic" as in western countries (or "developed" world); the real impact was on people, not about physical resources availability.
To be short, the question is how to deal with "fast" technology and "slow" attitude. If you are interested in such a topic I will try to send you more details about whatever you'll ask.
Thanks Raffaele Moles
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