Chapter 8

Vignette

Western Cape Striving To Eliminate The Digital Divide

1.) How important is access to ICT in children’s education?

Ans:

It is really important to access to ICT in children’s education, because it helps a children to learn more and gain knowledge in that easily. For children may excite to learn if they have that technology on their education.

2.) What are the barriers that stand in the way of universal access to ICT for everyone who wants it?

Ans:

The most common barriers are being a poor individuals or your country. In that way most schools cannot afford to provide a computer technology to all schoolchildren and educators.

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 exist between the kinds of healthcare services available to the wealthy and the poor in the United States?

Ans:

I can say that there were really gaps that exist between the kinds of healthcare services available to the wealthy and the poor in the United States.

Just like for example, in hospital the room of a wealthy one is private because they can afford it. While the poor one you should be very kind to share to another people in a single room. And the food of the wealthy one is just different to the poor. The wealthy can demand the hospitals whatever kind of food they want while the poor can’t. And in terms of services a wealthy one can have their medical services in their house.

2.) Should healthcare organizations make major investments in telemedicine to provide improved services that only the wealthy can afford?

Ans:

No, it is really a big no for that, what about those poor people? It was so unfair for them. The healthcare organizations should make major investments in telemedicine to provide improved services to those poor people and not the wealthy one. That’s the real point there. So poor people can have a chance to survive whatever illness they suffered. Because poor people are also human and they deserve to be treated well, as well as the wealthy one.

3.) What are the drawbacks of telemedicine? What situations might not lend themselves to telemedicine solutions?

Ans:
  On balance the benefits of telemedicine are substantial, assuming that more research will reduce or  eliminate the obvious drawbacks. The main drawbacks of telemedicine that can be envisaged are :

a      a ) A breakdown in the relationship between health professional and patient 

        b) A breakdown in the relationship between health professionals

  c)Quality of information issues

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