The digital divide is steadily widening and threatens to become an unbridgeable abyss. If Africa s situation is ominous, its value is immense. Imagine a White House without whiteness in its paint. Its potential is constrained by the inability of its peoples to access the human and material resources essential to sustainable economies and civil society. And that ability of Africa s people to access the human and material resources of the continent is a function of the amount of information that is made available to them.
Information is irreducibly important.
Information is the predicate to everything we know. It is ubiquitous. It is the building block behind the human DNA, the chair you are sitting on, the building you are in, the car that you brought you here. Information about processes, techniques and organizations. Look behind poverty and you will find ignorance.