Spring 2008
Student Name: Amal EL YAHCOUBI MOULAY
Student ID Number: 041R260568
1. What does ICT for Development or e-development mean for you? (250 words)
ICT for Development or e-development is the new information and communication technology. ICT includes the traditional technologies such as: (TV, radio), the new communication technologies such as desktop, laptop, Internet, distance learning.., in addition to the telecommunication lines: mobile phones, wireless and scanners. ICT is becoming vital and necessary for the success and the development of a country.
All the information we get and receive from the digital means of communication help in promoting innovation, success and good flow of digital communication. ICT is used in different ways and in different issues. For example we can find that ICT is used in education for the purpose to improve the education and learning and maintain a good transmission of information between students and instructors in order, to assure a good learning environment. Computers and internet are the communication technologies tools that are most used in education in today’s schools. For example Internet is used a lot by students to look for information related to their curriculum. Furthermore, it helps them make their assignment and learn by themselves. Internet helps student become responsible for what they look for and also make them learn in an independent way. In addition, email, blogs, and forums those are considered means of communication that are used for education and digital information sharing. A professor can depend on emails to share information between his students’ saves times and facilitate learning. Blogs and forums are also digital communication means that are used between instructors and students. In addition to education, ICT us used for economical development, health, poverty reduction…
2. How can we measure the digital divide? (250 words):
Measuring the digital divide will help know that impact if information communication technology on the population and the opportunity that people have accessing to different digital communication tools. In order to do so, many important criteria need to be taken into consideration to make a credible and successful measurement. First of all, human competencies, level of education, access to ICT technologies and Information Technology professionals need to be defined. This will help to start the process of measurement in a well managed and organized way. Than many indicators need to be used for the measurement of the digital divide which are:
· The percentage of TV users in a specific country as well as the calculation of the percentage of those people who do no use TV or do not have access to this communication medium especially in rural areas.
· Internet access: Internet needs to be measured in terms of people who use it and those who do not use it because of skills or internet availability. We need to measure this in cities as well as rural areas and also count the number of cyber cafes which will help the measurement of internet access.
· Mobile Phone users: Access and the use of mobile phones in rural areas and cities need to be analyzed to measure the digital divide.
· Computer availability: We need to measure the number of computers in each household, and also the computer skills according the gender and age.
· ICT equipment in public administrations and schools: We need to go to private schools and see if they have a multimedia lab, than count the number of computers in the labs and the number of students who use it.· Those previous indicators need to be measured according to Gender, the size of households, races, languages, place because they are considered important indicators to measure the digital divide in Morocco.
3. What should Morocco do to become a knowledge economy? (250 words)
In order for Morocco to become a knowledge economy many important things need to be taken into consideration especially the communication technology. Morocco should take into consideration this issue and try to develop it in order to become a knowledge economy.
Morocco need to install computers in all the ares especially rurals ares because it will make those people aware of those new technologies and use it in an appropeiate way.Moreover, Awarness programs in rural areas infesizing on the ICT technologies and how they are helping in facilitating the acess to informarmation is necessary because many people in rural ares do not know many ICT tools and how they can help in their developemnt . Cheap Internet cyber cafes are also needed. This will incourage Moroccan citizens to use this ICT tool and also to make them curious and moro motivated to learn how to use and navigate through the internet.Integrate the Multimidia lab in All Moroccan pulic shools and make it as a mandatory class in order to make students aware of the new information technology and let them use it and learn it.Cheap mobile acess is imortant as well as including mobile networks in all rural areas in Morocco to give them the opportunity and acess to use the mobile phones.In addition, the governement needs to encourage the investement in ICT infrastructure, development by hiring experienced workers and professionals
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