Thursday, December 11, 2008

Develop the Developing

Quite admittedly, the technology bug has everyone across nations smitten. Each and every day, without fail, something new comes along and catches our fancies. There is seemingly no end to this perennial cycle and no one can be sensed complaining.

Looking at it from the perspective of a developing country, however, it seems that the development of information and communications technology has slowed down, not in terms of the realization of new products or advances, but as regards the purposes for which they are created.

It is for this reason that I wish to see technologies developed in furtherance of the goals and ambitions of the developing countries. While it is also to our benefit that our developed counterparts continue to grow in the field and as such develop even further in consonance with the ends they seek to meet, it is quite unfortunate that developing countries take the back seat in this regard and fail to see and take advantage of the potential that is looming in the not so distant future.

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