Digital Bangladesh Problems and Prospects

Today, we are so accustomed and dependent on technology to communicate and inform our world (Bentley, 2014). According to Australian Bureau of Statistics (2017) Australia has a population of 24.7 million people, only 14.2 million of those people have access to the internet. That means that over ten million people in Australia, a young but well-developed country don’t have access to the internet. Nicholas Negroponte created a non for profit initiative called one laptop per child, in hope to continue to minimise the digital divide, this initiative has now rolled out in Ethiopia, Mongolia, Peru, Mexico, Rwanda and more. Technology is such a big part of our education system so what happens when some of our students don’t have access to basic

People in this world rely on the resource that technology provides in general. This source helps many to connect across the world. It’s provides network system, hardware, software or multimedia. Information technology (Wikipedia). It really benefits bureaucrats by accessing information on the computer about budgeting the money that the government spends each fiscal year. (Milakovich &Gordon, 2014). Technology enhances the government in many different ways. It enhances the government by reducing cost, approve satisfaction to citizen, and increase efficiency for the work process in the government. (Milakovich &Gordon, 2014). Technology allowed government to provide efficient documents online to review. The faster service online is a great way for government to get a positive image instead of

The term “digital divide” was coined to define this growing gap between the people who do not have access to modern technology (more specifically the poor, rural, elderly, and handicapped) and the people who do (wealthy, middle class, and those living in urban/suburban areas). In urban areas especially, a common assumption made is that everyone has access to this modern technology. People see technology all around them and assume it is integrated into everyone’s life. Because of the simplicity technology offers, it has become the engine behind economics, politics, and communication. In rural areas, most people know the potential of modern technology, but don’t have the resources to achieve it. “It has been observed that households earning incomes over $75,000 are 20 times more likely to have home internet access than those at lowest income levels and 10 times more likely to have a

This definition conveys an idea of the extraordinary impact of digital divide on world society and economy. Indeed, it is the close interrelation between economy and technology that attaches such a worldwide significance to a single socio-economic occurrence, such as digital divide. Nowadays, communication technologies, strongly stimulating economic growth, are the grease, which helps the wheel of global economy go round. Internet, for instance, has revolutionized the way we trade,

In her call to action, The People’s Platform; Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Astra Taylor addresses underlying social and economic forces of the internet and differential perspectives towards it. Taylor discusses the new internet in which content is king and, people are now the product, this is called Web 2.0. She discusses this topic from a couple viewpoints; those who would believe that the internet is truly the new people’s platform and that it is the golden age of sharing and collaboration, called the Techno-optimists. The counterparts of this interpretation of the internet are what she calls the Techno-Skeptics, who have a similar mindset in that of Nicholas Carr, an author about technology in the modern age, with the

“Modern economies are highly dependent on information systems and networks connected to “cyberspace” a virtual world with a population of several billion and growing.”

Rural>City>Cyberspace by Nicholas Carr and Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization are two essays written to show how modern times are changing our behavior. They both claim that we are losing some of our humanity. Although both passages seem to have a similar main idea they have many differences. Rural>City>Cyberspace and Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization have different purposes, patterns, and are directed towards different audiences. Rural>City>Cyberspace’s purpose was to show its readers the effects technology is having on our brains.

One can appreciate the modern technology and how it simplified life, but fail to use it to the full extent. Throughout these past decades, technology has brought both advantages and disadvantages to the humankind. One of the disadvantages deals with government involvement, giving them the access to information and the power to make sure they have everything under control which leaves its users with limitation and undemocratic. The good news is this situation only leads to certain measure leaving the users with freedom. Freedom giving people a chance to express themselves, even though they fail to see the immunity they own. Democracy tends to be part of the technological system as well, most users use it to ensure democratization is all around the world by including its part of communication. Democratization theory is that Cyberspace provides a various amount of internet sources for people to access, whether it is to communicate or share moments with one another. “Democracy in Cyberspace: What Technology Can and Cannot Do for Us,” is a text written by Ian Bremmer, sharing evidence-based information sources that point out the real deal of internet and it’s reflection towards its users. One’s experience of freedom is determined by the amount that is given to them, including their dependence on one another, as well as, providing the chance to define technologist’s neutrality. Advanced developments have occurred a lot throughout these years for the sake of technology.

Explores the possibilities between two possible outcomes in a world where our reliance technology in our daily life has increased from “nice to have” or convenient to “cannot live without.” Scenario one explores, society embracing networking on a global scale and increasing interoperability in a world that relies heavily on virtual reality or “augmented reality (Mittlemen 44.)” Scenario two explores, world governments shutting themselves off from one another digitally and restricting usage to within its own sovereign territory through slowing down the network, increasing advertisements, selling your personal information that is posted online without your permission.

It cannot be denied that the internet has changed the way the world operates. Products that we never thought possible have become the norm; connecting across the globe is nearly seamless; and, as Bill Gates stated in his speech at COMDEX in 1990, information is truly at our fingertips.These things are good. They help businesses and people operate at higher speeds and efficiencies, but we often stop here, not considering the impacts of these changes beyond their immediate good. The purpose of this paper is to point out some ways that the internet has failed us, or rather how we, as a society, are failingas a result of community digitization.

As a country, Bangladesh is full of possibilities, which has severe problems that needs to be solved. There are progressive scietific education policy which were never been implied in real world basis. Dictatorship and democratic political regimes likely never implied an education policy which really works. However, the country is conformed fully to the education for all objectives attached to the Millenium Development Goals. In reality, though, higher education is

Laptops, smartphones, smartwatches and the Internet are all good examples that show how much human life has been relying on digital technologies in the past two decades. Nevertheless, digital divide, the phenomenon that not all people have access to digital technologies, still prevails in Australia. The recent Australia Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) report states that the increase in Internet coverage in the country has been little in the last three years, especially in South Australia and Tasmania, and the lower income group uses the Internet significantly less than the richer (Thomas, 2017). This certainly has much to do with the affordability of hardware and Internet services for people with low socioeconomic status, but such a divergence may also be explained by the absence of infrastructure, such as the broadband network service, in the remote regions (Park et al., 2015, p.3633).

The film “ Digital Nation” is an exploration of diverse people's views on digital media, in today's world. Some of the most important topics were on the virtual world, and the pros and cons of technology within different groups like gamers, students, families, teachers, administrators, children, military and businesses, as well as the experience of general people. In the movie, Prof. Sherry Turkle said, “Technology challenges us to assert our human values. Technology is not good or bad, is powerful, and it is complicated which means first we have to figure out what they are”. Currently, technology has taken over, wherever one, goes one will find it. Over the past years, social media in particular have spread worldwide; from Facebook to Instagram. There is constantly something new, extra advanced and creative. Overall, the technology has evolved the way humans interact with each other. In particular, technology influences by motivating students towards learning, saving time, building literacy and communication skills.

To determine the actual advantages and risks of these advances in digital technology, firstly, it needs to be known that this technology is an innovational platform. Digital technology is known as a new technology that providing society with personal computers and the international networks. On the other hand, since the massive implementation of digital technology, it also has negative effects on society and people’s life. As a Chinese, the development of such technology in China is a unique example showing the benefits and negative impacts of digital technology.

The Tunisian government has positioned these technologies in solid of its development plan. Information and communication technologies are considered as a tool enabling for economic diversification and for the creation of new activities in all sectors. Tunisia was among the first African countries which make ICTs a key element in its national strategy.