Discussion: Reducing the divide

The advantages of bridging the gap in the global digital divide is that, more and more people will be able to access the internet, less and less people will be illiterate because technology can be used to help people learn to read and write. Also there will be a lot more jobs for people in the worlds due to the internet, telecoms ect. The advantages for the poorest nations are that they will get more money, there will be more jobs available and the country will earn more money due to this. Clinton was incorrect, matching internet and telephone levels will not help to reduce income equality because there will be a higher rate of income equality because there is more communications available to the people in the world. Charities such as computer aid do better than harm because they are collecting money to help buy computers for people all over the world to help them with illiterately, the computers mostly go to countries that are less economically developed.

Investigate the impact of access to telecoms

Comparing telecoms between, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Singapore, Vietnam and the UK.

Central Afican Republic;

Population: 4,444,330
Telephones-land lines: 12,000
Mobile/cellular: 130,000
Telephone system: 1 per 100 people
Radio brodcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, Shortwave 1
Country code: 236
Internet country code: .cf
Internet hosts: 21
Internet Users: 13,000

Costa Rica;

Population: 4,195,914
Telephones-land lines: 1.437 million
Mobile/cellular: 1.503 million
Telephone system: good domestice telephone service
Radio brodcast stations: AM 65, FM 51, Shortwave 19
Country code: 506
Internet country code: .cr
Internet hosts: 16,440
Internet Users: 1.5million

Sinapore;

Population: 4,608,167
Telephones-land lines: 1.859 million
Mobile/cellular: 5.619 million
Telephone system: excelent service
Radio brodcast stations: Am 0, FM 17, Shortwave 2
Country code: 65
Internet country code: .sg
Internet hosts: 837,559
Internet Users: 3.105 million

Vietnam;

Population: 86,116,560
Telephones-land lines: 10.8 million
Mobile/cellular: 33.2 million
Telephone system: good general assement
Radio brodcast stations: AM 65, FM7, shortwave 29
Country code: 84
Internet country code: .vn
Internet hosts: 106,772
Internet Users: 17.87 million

UK;

Population: 60,943,912
Telephones-land lines: 33.682 million
Mobile/cellular: 71.992 million
Telephone system: technoligy advanced
Radio brodcast stations: AM 219, FM 413, Shortwave 3
Country code: 44
Internet country code: .uk
Internet hosts: 5.118 million
Internet Users: 40.2 million

The UK has a much more advanced technoligy compared to the other countries, due to these other countries not being a very wealthy country, the country also not able to get hold of the resources needed to have more internet hosts, telephone connections etc.

What leads to being on the wrong side of the divide

Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea Biseau and Burkino Fasso are the least digitally developed countries, they may be on the wrong side of the digital divide because, these countries are not particularly wealthy which means that these countries do not have the money to spend on the technology. Niger is also a landlocked country in north Africa which means it is very hard to get ntew technology to the country because it has no access by sea.

Discussion society and the individual

We should allow society to 'look after us' to the extent that we still have our freedom, we should not be controlled on what we do each day so society can 'look after us'. Our individual freedom should still count and matter, society should not be taking away our own individual freedom to 'look after us'. Our freedom should not be deprived, but we should allow society to 'look after us' by looking through databases and using technology to find things that could harm us/the society.

Case study- Monitoring internet and email use

The advantages of content monitoring in an estate agency is the managers can tell if employees are wasting time on the computers during working hours e.g. going on games ect also it can track down the source of a virus if any viruses are found on the computer.

The negative impacts of this method of monitoring is that the employees might feel entrusted with what they are doing on the computers and could want to leave, also content monitoring may make employees feel like they are being constantly watched by there managers making them feel uncomfortable and make them feel insecure.

The advantages it has for employees is that it can protect them from any websites that could be a threat to the them and stops them from being in any danger from viruses, also the employees will not be dragged into any inappropriate websites because the content monitoring is stopping any bad websites from being viewed on the computer.

The system can cause problems if the system is only used for business purposes because the system will not allow the computers to be used for any thing else that strictly business purposes, the system could see business purposes as something different than the users.

The system should be used but also it should be monitored by someone at the same time to make sure the system is running well and not sending reports to the managers by accident.

Teen Arrive Alive GPS tracking system

The benefits of using a this new technology is that the parents can be sure were there child is anytime they want to check up on them, also this technology can help the emergency services if on the GPS it says that they have had a crash then the parents can contact the emergency services. The drawbacks to having this is that there daughters and sons may think that this technology is invading there privacy, also the GPS could fail and not work or have a technical fault making the GPS show something that is not happening.

Discussion US passports and RFID

These passports will save a lot of time but the dangers of this new technology are that there could be fake micro chips, which could cause people to have fake identities. Also the dangers are that the scanner could fail or not work properly which will make the ID checks slower and less convenient. Also the tags will only be inserted to 1 million passports not all the passports, which there will be no need for the scanners because only 1 million people will have them.