They are our future and hold the greatest potential for bringing about meaningful change in communities. Our challenge is to integrate the Internet into the interventions aimed at helping young people, to harness its enormous power to bring people and resources together, and to change the way that we think about addressing these issues. These efforts are aimed not so much at bridging the digital divide but using the tools of the New Economy to address much larger social issues. This requires investments in people first and technology second. But it is investments in people where the greatest hope for change lies.
Numbers are, of course, more seductive the larger they get.
And that can be a problem. Businesses count numbers. Both print and broadcast media depend on numbers to set advertising rates. The membership of the U.S. House of Representatives is determined by using numbers. The larger the number, the greater the apparent benefit from the use of the statistic.