Education, Web and New Technologies
A gigantic instructional opening between developed and undeveloped states
All of us read that more than 90% of USA’s students are hooked up to Social networks, that e-mail passed out or that more than 80% of work seekers used Linkedin. But that isn't a world rule, but an exception. Continents like Africa, Asia or even Central and South America have giant instructional problems, being one of them, naturally, the access to the new technologies of communication and information.
An African example: Senegal
NGOs that are working in Africa denounced lately that in one visit to the authorities they were told that conditions at school buildings are really bad, and although it has claimed many times to the administration building for a new one, they don't respond adequately.
Also, services they have are in really poor condition. The director interviewed by a charitable organization told them this is one of the needs they have, but the administration did not heed them, and they have no cash for anything.
For example, they announced that they do not have money to chop the weeds that grow during the summer in the yard of the high-school and to subsidize the canteen, so many students have no cash to pay for lunch and the have to starve till they come back home in the evening. They want school apparatus for the beginning of the course, particularly French-language books (French is the official language of Senegal).
A serious difference between USA and Senegal
Like we see, there is not just an opening, but all an ocean between USA or developed countries and Senegal, or underdeveloped ones. While some of EU or American scholars are worried because they have not the last version of Windows, in Africa are worried because they don't have any books. Is globalization a fact or maybe for those ones that may permit it? Step-by-step, the opening is bigger and African countries can convert into a big Safari Park.
Abel Pardo is CEO of Aigen Digital Marketing and Professor of Posicionamiento en Internet at the university of Leon
