Putting a cellular phone in the hands of people who can barely put food on the table or live in sub par housing conditions, fighting aides, and worst of all, about to be left of out the 21st century digital workforce is just crazy. Cellular phones and pagers have been in the poorest hands for almost a decade now, has having a cellular phone helped their conditions, no.
Lets get back on target, TO SOLVE the Digital Divide, you must FIRST solve the socioeconomic conditions that caused that, or at the very least, at the same time. The new workforce will require some use of technology, and you can't get anywhere close to the same benefits using a phone. And let's face it; phones that come closest, actually cost twice as much as a computer. Try learning how to type, do research, training, net medicine on a phone. Computers today are used as a communications device, and to put together a plan to try to substitute PC technology with phone is just crazy. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
