Is there a possibility of making computer technology accessible to all Africans?

Question

communication in africa is very difficult, because of the slow pace at which technology is devoloping .is there a way out.?

Answer 1

This is really not a Anthropology question its more political. Its more to do with the politics of africa and the way adminstrations have become dictatorial regimes. But I believe that for africans to advanced they must first stop using tribalism to start wars that cannot be sustained.

Answer 2

It is hard to justify giving a child access to a computer when his family does not even have electricity.

Answer 3

yes it already is, however its the governments and how they devlve out the money and funding to different projects in the countries

Answer 4

The technology is available everywhere. Its the money and the governments holding back the people.

We throw away old  tvs, stereos, and computers in america because they are so cheap to replace. Our trash is many other peoples treausre but very few people use their initiative and do something.

Bill Gates would love to see a computer on every desk in every school on earth. Start writing to him.

Ask everyone you know to write to him.

Ask him to donate some of his billions to helping modernize africa as well as his aids foundation.

And remember, computers just hit america 25 years ago and it took a lot of trial and error to reach the point we are at now.

Be patient, the world will follow.

And at a much faster pace.

The first digital watch cost hundreds of dollars

The first car phone, thousands.

Now they give them away in Happy Meals or happy deals.

Computers will follow.

Answer 5

tell the citizens of Africa to get to work and build up their society.  PS Schools help example opera

Answer 6

No and yes.

No because Africa is terribly corrupt.  So we can't just send them some technology and wish them good luck.

But Yes if you look at the good signs.

- Africa will skip the expensive process of giving everybody a fixed telephone line.  Think about it: The USA and Europe had to dig up their entire continents to wire everybody, because wireless technology did not exist.

Developing nations can skip that expensive task. They put up an antenna, and bang! Entire villages suddenly have phone access!

- Africans find their way around things.

Phones too expensive? They share one with twenty people.

No bank accounts? Kenya has developed a system to transfer money via text-messages.

Need to travel to the market to see if you can sell your goods? Now people make a call first to see if the price is right.

They are adopting new technology at lightning speed because it helps them so much.

The reason you don't hear about it is that it's happening at grassroots level.

Answer 7

Plans are already well advanced.  A small computer has been designed which can be manufactured in plastic by the tens of thousands, for under $100 each.

Instead of external electricity, it runs on its own batteries which are recharged by turning a crank handle.  Instead of a hard drive, it relies on flash memory.

The intention is to distribute these little computers to all classrooms in Third World Africa.

Hopefully this will help lift them out of their poverty.  But the downside is that thousands more spammers will start emailing you to tell you about the twenty million dollars left by an uncle who was tragically killed in an accident and you can help transfer the money to America and get your share.