Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Chapter 8


Vignette (Western Cape Striving to Eliminate the Digital Divide)

Questions to Consider

  1. How important is access to ICT in children’s education?

Answer:
It is important to access the ICT children’s education by doing equipment reliable. Because ICT wants to organize or to provide each school with a computer lab. The goal of ICT is give the provinces also the cities, the schools to get or to flexibility in designing their education programs and initiatives.

  1. What are the barriers that stand in the way of universal access to ICT for everyone who wants its?

Answer:
The used equipment proved unreliable and difficult for the schools to maintain. The Khanya project team eventually decided to partner with NComputing, a for-profit company that specializes in creating “virtual desktop” via software and hardware connected to centralized networks. By using virtual desktop technology, a single computer can be shared among multiple users; each user connects to the computer through a device that is smaller than a paperback book, and each takes turns sharing the computer.


Cases
Technological Advances Create Digital Divide in Health Care

  1. Can you provide examples that either refute or confirm the idea that a gap exists between the kinds of healthcare services available to the wealthy and the poor in the United States?

Answer:
In terms of that I can give an example from basis in US, but I will give it in a reality in the field in the Philippines. If that situation given in the Philippines I c an make sure that all the poor people can hospitalize in a public I can give it as a free for poor only, because they cannot afford that services, for only from a poor people. The goal of the program is to avoid health crises and reduces total expenses.

  1. Should health care organizations make major investments in telemedicine to provide improved services that only the wealthy can afford?

Answer:
No because not all person can afford the wealthy, not mention that only riches can afford it, but what about the poor they do not have much money to afford the privileges conduct a services, but if an organizations takes that for poor then why not but takes for poor only.

  1. What are the drawbacks of telemedicine? What situations might not lend themselves to telemedicine solutions?

Answer:
The irony of technological advances in medicine is that while they can prolong and improve the quality of life, they also create new standards and expectations, which could ultimately either push the healthcare system toward a financial crisis or increase the disparity between rich and poor.



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