A gigantic instructional opening between developed and undeveloped states
Everybody read that more than 90% of USA’s scholars are connected to Social networks, that email passed out or that more than 80% of job hunters used Linkedin. But that's not a world rule, but an exception. Continents like Africa, Far East or perhaps Central and South America have big educational issues, being one of them, of course, the access to the new technologies of communication and info.
An African example: Senegal
NGOs which are working in Africa denounced recently that in one trip to the authorities they were told that conditions in class buildings are terrible, and even though it has claimed many times to the administration building for a new one, they do not reply acceptably.
Also, services they have are in extraordinarily poor condition. The director interviewed by a non profit organization told them that this is one of the desires they have, but the administration didn't heed them, and they haven't any money for anything.
For instance, they said that they don't have cash to cut the weeds that grow in the summer in the courtyard of the high school and to subsidize the canteen, so many scholars have no money to pay for lunch and the have to starve until they come back home in the evening. They require college kit for the start of the course, especially French-language books (French is the officially sanctioned language of Senegal).
A major difference between United States and Senegal
Like we see, there is not just an opening, but all an ocean between USA or developed states and Senegal, or underdeveloped ones. While some of Western european or American scholars are worried because they've not the last version of Windows, in Africa are worried because they have no books. Is globalization an actual fact or perhaps for those ones that can permit it? Step-by-step, the opening is bigger and bigger and African countries can convert into a big Safari Park.
Abel Pardo is CEO of Aigen Digital Marketing and Professor of Posicionamiento en Internet at the university of Leon
