VIGNETTE “Western Cape
Striving To Eliminate the Digital Divide”
1. How important is access to
ICT in children’s education?
Answer:
ICT is playing an increasing role in people's lives, and the Government has set a target of providing 'universal access' to the Internet by 2006. It is now a fundamental feature of compulsory and post-16 education, and all schools had access by 2002. ICT is also becoming an important aspect in the employment sector and a tool for enabling citizen participation and social inclusion as more services, products and information becomes accessible by electronic means.
2. What are the barriers that
stand in the way of universal access to ICT for everyone who wants it?
Answer:
Gain more knowledge to
the children, to make them good, to practiced their skills and easier to find
and organize some information’s. and practiced well.
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:
Given the vast inequities in disease burden between developed and developing countries, donors, advocates, and researchers are marshalling resources to accelerate the production of new health technologies that may help to bridge this gap.
“Improving the health of the poorest people in the developing world depends on the development of many varieties of health innovations, such as new drugs, vaccines, devices, and diagnostic tools, as well as new techniques in process engineering and manufacturing, management approaches, software, and policies in health systems and services.”(1)
However, developing countries are able to undertake health innovation to different degrees. In developing countries, researchers and innovators face tremendous challenges, including the lack of technical training, research tools, financial resources, and up-to-date scientific information. These barriers impede activists from developing and implementing innovative and low cost technologies.
One such health technology that has the potential to save and improve lives is the disposable needle. Increasing numbers of people in developing countries are getting the vaccinations that they need to protect their health, but clean needle practices have not caught up. At least 50 percent of injections in developing countries are unsafe, and in some places that number is as high as 70 percent.(2)
One such health technology that has the potential to save and improve lives is the disposable needle. Increasing numbers of people in developing countries are getting the vaccinations that they need to protect their health, but clean needle practices have not caught up. At least 50 percent of injections in developing countries are unsafe, and in some places that number is as high as 70 percent.(2)
Reused needles can increase the risk of HIV, hepatitis B, and other infections. “In addition, when dirty needles are not safely disposed of, people harvest them from the garbage and resell them, and children even play with them in garbage dumps.”(3) Vaccinations are meant as a preventive measure to ensure good health, yet when they are administered with unsanitary syringes, patients may actually be harmed. The nonprofit organization PATH has developed technologies for safe needle disposal and worked with countries to get the supplies they need to make injections safe. They have invented “auto-disposable,” one-time-use syringes and helped pioneer needle removal devices that isolate dirty needles in secure containers. Simple low-cost technology such as this has the potential to disseminate rapidly across the developing world, saving millions of lives.
2. Should healthcare
organizations make major investments in telemedicine to provide improved
services that only the wealthy can afford?
Answer:
They should be if they can handle various issues regards to developing telemedicine, and somehow only few certain people can afford it that may lead to closure of investment. not only for the wealthy or
rich people can afford the telemedicine, also for the poor people can benefits
so that it’s not fair to others.
3. What are the drawbacks of
telemedicine? What situations might not lend themselves to telemedicine
solutions?
Answer:
As a result, objective information about the benefits and drawbacks of telemedicine is limited. This review is therefore based mainly on preliminary results, opinions and predictions. Many potential benefits of telemedicine can be envisaged, including: improved access to information; provision of care not previously deliverable; improved access to services and increasing care delivery; improved professional education; quality control of screening programmes; and reduced health-care costs. Although telemedicine clearly has a wide range of potential benefits, it also has some disadvantages. The main ones that can be envisaged are: a breakdown in the relationship between health professional and patient; a breakdown in the relationship between health professionals; issues concerning the quality of health information; and organizational and bureaucratic difficulties. On balance, the benefits of telemedicine are substantial, assuming that more research will reduce or eliminate the obvious drawbacks.
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