How can increasing access to technology among poor communities help promoting social & economic development?

Question

We are in the knowledge age. How can the increase in access to technology (Internet and computer) among low-income communities help to promote social and economic development?

This question was asked at the Dropping Knowledge event on 9th
September by Rodrigo Baggio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Answer 1

A public policy aims at continuous and sustained economic growth and expansion of national economies so that 'developing countries' become 'developed countries'. The economic development process supposes that legal and institutional adjustments are made to give incentives for innovation and for investments.
We are running the knowledge age. Modern technology includes computational technology to diffuse and systemise information so as to develop an efficient production and distribution system for goods and services.
New jobs creation, economic output is the most common thing that can be created.
Economic development corporations (= economic output and increase in taxable basis) can be developed and function as individual entities and in some cases as departments of local governments.
What is the modern growth model followed?
Ecological economics is a branch of economics that addresses the interdependence and co-evolution between human economies and natural ecosystems
It accepts as a goal the improvement of human wellbeing through economic development, and seeks to ensure achievement of this through planning for the sustainable development of ecosystems and societies.
A series of activities can be improved and procedures like pest management, e-learning at all the levels – from school to continuing education and agricultural management – production of goods at a lower cost, as the cost is lower ecc.

katerina

Answer 2

Education is what the future is about. With increased automation there will be less need for common labor and those jobs will dry up as machines do for less what people did. By giving poor communities around the world access to the Internet and then other technology they will have the technical skills to maintain the machines that had replaced them; therefore, they will earn a living.

Answer 3

I don't say this is one of the greatest enterprises, but I say it is the greatest one, in condition that it must be accompanished with a decent education. Yes, the Internet also had its desastrous effect.