Minamur Chowdhury

on Text Technologies: The Changing Spaces of Reading and Writing

 

 

 

Building Digital Infrastructure

In the big picture, the common path to over the technology divide is to work on to build a IT infrastructure linking villages and communities, universities and primary and secondary schools, scientific and research centers, public libraries, cultural centers, museums, post offices, railway stations and archives, health centers and hospitals, and local and central government departments. Other targets include improving the availability of information in all languages on the Internet, and ensuring that everyone in the world has at least a periodical access to digital texts and communications. As a result, local communities and governments alike, with digital links, and governance through it, will create a natural and an enthusiast trend which will lead the drive of developments in all other underdeveloped fields.

Although, we know the digital technology is shrinking the world and same time it is creating a divide where huge percentage of the world population without any access to digital world, and it is of little value if the text that it contains is almost exclusively in a language one don't understand, or if it fails to deal with the life and death questions that affect their society. An obvious solution for that will be for the part of local governments and educational institutions to develop local contents and same time for the part of the world body to put in place the technical requirements in order to facilitate the presence and use of all world languages on the Internet.

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