In the short term, limited Internet access to educational resources is of benefit to education - for some. It can be argued that such efforts advance the field of distance learning and even our understanding of access requirements, for eventually making the benefits available to all. But we all know that what is coming out of the short efforts is driven by business opportunities, not universal access. In the short term business matters more. But, when people don't matter in the short term, they will not matter at all.
People are the only thing that matter.
Dr. Masullo received her bachelor's degree from The City College of New York, majoring in Architecture and English Literature, a Master of Science in Computer Science from the City College of New York, a Master of Philosophy, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The City University of New York for her interdisciplinary thesis with the Departments of Computer Science and Educational Psychology. Dr. Antonio Ruiz received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York, the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He worked at IBM since 1978, when he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center to work in digital signal processing applications, and moved to the Almaden Research Center in 1981, to work in multimedia subsystems for workstations. His current interests include the use of technical solutions for universal and global access to education infrastructures.