The digital divide threatens the future of Africa . . . Because, the digital divide carries real consequences for the ability of a society to keep itself healthy, productive and stable. In a world where civil aviation moves people and microbes, disease in Africa is impossible to confine to Africa. With globalization, no economy is an island. Poverty in one land means a meaner life for us all.
Political instability reverberates across continents and oceans.
The shot that has allegedly killed Laurent Kabila echoes as we speak in Washington, Paris and London. 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.