All posts tagged "Internet Access"

Thanks to Erik at LGM for pointing out this excellent NY Times op-ed by Manu Joseph criticizing the strained rhetoric that's often employed to justify attempts to get electricity, cell phones, and internet access to poor people in developing countries. As Joseph notes, there's a tendency to shy away from talking about these things in terms of the pleasure they give people, which ends up suggesting that anything that poor people do that isn't related strictly to survival and reproduction is somehow suspect:

Basic broadband can add £200 a month to household income in developed economies, researchers have found, because better internet access improves learning and working from home.

A new “copyright alert” system has begun rolling out this week in the United States in an effort to curb online piracy.

China has said it will aim to bring faster and cheaper Internet accessto more people, following complaints that a near monopoly by state-backed firms had hurt service.

A British technology company claims to have developed the world's least expensive computer tablet for wireless Internet access.