Generating Second Class Citizens for the Knowledge Society

Give ICT tools to an illiterate community with a limited tradition of content generating and knowledge documentation and they will become consumers of information and technology, but not generators of information or active participants in the Information Society, therefore becoming second class citizens of it.

More often than not, people and communities in developing regions are recipients of technology and do not play an active role in the development of IT solutions or even social initiatives to improve their living conditions or empower them to do so.

We should not give communities anything. Communities should not be mere recipients of solutions, technologies or even social initiatives. It is of little help when outsiders come and "observe" their needs in order to decide what solutions are needed and return to provide them with those needs.

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