Inequality

Today, people like us, relay on our smart phones, the Internet and computers every single moment; however, this does not apply to two-thirds of the people around the world. Technology is extremely crucial in the nature of globalization as it makes our work and daily activities easier. Through various technology inventions, people are able to travel aboard with shorter time. Businessmen can communicate with partners in another country through Internet anytime, anywhere. Furthermore, people can easily get all the information and goods they require by just a simple click. In the recent decades, digital technologies such as mobile phones have been developed dramatically. All these phenomena show the dominant role of the technologies in our society. However, not all individuals can obtain benefit from this technology equally. On the one hand, people who are from rural areas do not even have a chance in touch with these advance technologies; poor development and very limited information can be spread from the current media. On the other hand, children grew up without using smart technology, they have lesser chance to learn from computers and other related skill in their early age, as a result, created a steep learning curve of advance technology skills. With the present problems, inequality often raised in developing counties over the years, the gap of digital divide has been form. To address the problems, one-way is the government can allocate funds to creative inventions or developing companies to improve the infrastructure in the rural areas. The other way is to establish the technology skill education in these rural areas, thus will eventually relieve poverty gap.

Firstly, government intervention is the most effective way among the solutions. As there is lack of proper infrastructure for the advance technology to spread in these rural areas. Thus, it is necessary for the government to invest for the invention. Elga Reyes point out “ A group of people invented a Solar Conduction Dryer in India won the grand prize in 2013, they received US$60,000 in prize money to help and commercialize their project (Elga Reyes, 2013)”. This simple and innovative technology allows the user to use solar energy to dry food thus reducing spoilage and alleviating rural poverty. Furthermore, infrastructure such as broadband lines is important to capture the latest information and communication through Internet. Learning center can be established to the people from these rural areas, free access to these computers must provide. With a funding program, people in rural areas will tends to have more creative projects and better platform to improve their living environment.

Secondly, by opening classes at various institutions in rural areas, people in rural areas are able to learn advance skills such as computer programing and Microsoft word, which help them to get into the mid-level jobs or even a higher-level job. From an economic research “ the gap tends to narrow and competitiveness is enhanced once the population’s overall skill level improves.(H.K,2010)”. This program gives people a chance to become a skilled person, since most of the people in rural areas are lowly educated, absence of knowledge and skills will cause them reluctant to learn advanced skills. Therefore, it is extremely important for the government to invest class to show them how easy and interesting the computer can be used to capture information around the world.

With no doubt, both solutions depends heavily on government’s intervention, many countries have proven the successes and effectiveness. With proper infrastructures people from rural areas will be able to in touch with advance technology easily, with a better education system, people will be able to get a better job through learning new skills. However, developing country is not as rich as developed country, the biggest challenge aspect is funding. Today, most of the poverty colonies are still fighting against pestilence and hunger. These countries do not have money for the intervention. Hence, the problem in those developing countries can only be addressed gradually.