Roundtable Wrap-Up: RT 10-Wednesday

Can technology be used to subvert corruption in government? Mobile banking in Africa has allowed people to cultivate saving and move money quickly. We need to ensure the integration of technology is done in a way that allows for positive use and benefits the people. How do you solve the problems with illiteracy and how they affect the integration of technology? Does technology meet the needs of the people? Do they desire education, money, connectivity? In order to bring inexpensive technology to the developing world we could invest in research in stabilizing the technology we already have rather than always pushing the envelope. Will the computer help these villages, is it all useless without the connectivity to the internet?

What can be done as far as educating using the technology, distance learning etc? Is distance education via the internet a suitable substitute for classroom/professor/peer interaction?