VIGNETTE
“Western Cape Striving To Eliminate the Digital Divide”
1. How important is access to ICT in
children’s education?
Children are less likely to be intimidated by, or afraid of ICT than are most adults. They often approach ICT with keenness and curiosity and thus, may quickly become adept at operating the technology. Therefore, if managed effectively, it may be seen as a suitable and motivating tool for teaching and learning
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2. What are the barriers that stand in
the way of universal access to ICT for everyone
who wants it?
Case Study 1 – IT
Enables a Smarter Power Grid
1. What do you see as the major advantages of
implementing a smart power grid?
It has a major
advantage like power consumer and power provider will have control over power
consumption, all consumer can manage the power that will be use to their
appliances it also sustainable to wind and solar generators.
2. What are the key issues and barriers
associated with implementation of a smart power grid?
The costs,
benefits, value proposition to the customers, implementation, and deployment.
3. If the government provides much of the
money required to implement a smart power grid, does that give it a right to
control how the power grid is operated?
Yes, by
supporting Smart Grid it is easy to control the power which the consumer
consumption every day.
Case Study 2 – Does
IT investment Pay Off?
1. Apart from the annual rate of output per
worker, what are other ways of measuring labor productivity?
The profit of
every product were also a labor productivity, the ideas and innovate
that every labor shared are somehow measures as a productivity.
2. What
factors determine whether a new information system will increase or decrease
labor productivity?
If it is in
progress condition, in implementing new information system it is easily
identify whether the productivity are increasing or decreasing.
3. Why is it so difficult to determine whether
IT has increased labor productivity?
In IT
business it is difficult to determine, many of competence who still do business
as what others do. And technology has the fastest approach to the consumer
nowadays, what is in for today and tomorrow it will be a junk or old one. And
somehow a lot of issues will strive and criticize your business which may lead
to determine whether it is productive or not.
Case Study 3 –
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 poor in the United States?
Inequality in economic resources is a natural but
not altogether attractive feature of a free society. [ As health care becomes
an ever larger share of the economy, we will have no choice but to struggle
with the questions of how far we should allow such inequality to extend and
what restrictions on our liberty we should endure in the name of
fairness."At its root, the lack of health care for all in America is
fundamentally a moral issue. The United States is the only industrialized
nation that does not have some form of universal health care (defined as a
basic guarantee of health care to all of its citizens). While other countries
have declared health care to be a basic right, the United States treats health
care as a privilege, only available to those who can afford it... Americans
purport to believe in equal opportunity. Yet, in the current situation, those
who do not have health care are at risk for financial ruin and poorer health,
both of which disadvantage them in society and thereby do not give them equal
opportunity...
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2. Should healthcare organizations make major
investments in telemedicine to provide improved services that only the wealthy
can afford?
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.
3. What are the drawbacks of telemedicine?
What situations might not lend themselves to telemedicine solutions?
Its easy part
of those patients who monitor their health situation it’s somehow applicable to
decrease their annual patient cost but for those people who can’t afford
telemedicine might have gap to their healthcare.
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