Assignment 3

Negroponte’s initiative could definitely be a way to, if not bridge the digital divide, at least considerably decrease it. Moreover, as we discussed in class last time, communication technologies without knowledge is not really effective, nor very meaningful. Indeed, the first priority to cope with divides (digital, structure and knowledge divides among others) is to start by providing knowledge to those who cannot access to it. In a word, since “the project is an educational one rather than a laptop one”, bridging the digital divide using Negroponte’s incentive can be a way to include everyone into our new and still elitist knowledge society.