We would like to read your opinion about Erik Dejonghe in Belgium saying there is a "digital divide", without an economic or financial problem, but with a "mentality problem".
His opinion: the problem is mostly not the cost of the technology, but the skills which are needed to use them.
RE: Digital Divide
by ConorMurphy on 08 November 2009 - 14:40.There would be no Digital Divide, if the Digital age was not moved at such a fast pace, the people who are affected are the ones who have been brought up with letters and telephone, and when the world is increasingly becoming more about emails and mobiles some people just won't be able to keep up. The Solution, well there really are three.
1. Leave Them - If they can't keep up, its there problem.
2. Teach Them - Some will not be willing to learn, and others won't be able to.
3. Appease Them - Allow for a slowed time of gradual reduction of the 'Old Technology' presence.
Its a complex problem and it needs a innovative solution, but the divide will heal as the 'Digital First Generation' enter to the old, the task now, is to keep curriculum in line with the technology avaliable.