Integration Of Technology In Ethiopia Case Study
Abstract
To what extent can the integration of technology be the solution to help meet Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? The purpose of this essay is to show and explain the reader what is happening all over the world amongst third world countries, but specifically, using Ethiopia as a case study.
For many years, charitable organizations have been helping poor people, who have been struggling to earn enough money for a living. Many charitable organizations have been able to raise money to help and support these people by giving them food and water. The negative side of this act of kindness from these organizations is that by giving food supplies out, people may not be able to become independent. Unfortunately, this does …show more content…
“Our vision is to make comprehensive use of information and communications technology (ICT) to accelerate the democratization and development of the country,” explains the minister of capacity building for the Government of Ethiopia Tefera Waluwa, who is charged with implementing the country’s ICT vision. Early in 2003, the country’s Ministry of Capacity Building and Planning issued a tender for equipment and services for the first two major …show more content…
One thing that people do not think about when raising money is that by providing the food and water these poor people need will not help them maintain themselves independently, because organizations are only providing them essential supplies for surviving, preventing them from starvation. What Zuckerberg meant with his statement on the 10th anniversary of Facebook was that in order to effectively help everybody in the world who lives in third world countries they need technology. If food is continuously provided to these people, they will just keep on staying alive and dependent form these charitable groups. On the other hand, a revolutionary way of literally helping these people survive, without them depending on strangers, is with the use of technology, which would help meet article 26, for two reasons. First, people could use telecommunications by using for instance the telephones in order to communicate with people all around the world, so that business can easily and quickly be done. If there were not any type of source for transmission, work would be done more slowly, and the economy would take years to grow. Moreover, as Riccardo Braglia, CEO and managing director of Helsinn holding SA , stated, “Cell phones, as a way of telecommunicating has offered millions of people to communicate with small villages in the middle of nowhere, who
To what extent can the integration of technology be the solution to help meet Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? The purpose of this essay is to show and explain the reader what is happening all over the world amongst third world countries, but specifically, using Ethiopia as a case study.
For many years, charitable organizations have been helping poor people, who have been struggling to earn enough money for a living. Many charitable organizations have been able to raise money to help and support these people by giving them food and water. The negative side of this act of kindness from these organizations is that by giving food supplies out, people may not be able to become independent. Unfortunately, this does …show more content…
“Our vision is to make comprehensive use of information and communications technology (ICT) to accelerate the democratization and development of the country,” explains the minister of capacity building for the Government of Ethiopia Tefera Waluwa, who is charged with implementing the country’s ICT vision. Early in 2003, the country’s Ministry of Capacity Building and Planning issued a tender for equipment and services for the first two major …show more content…
One thing that people do not think about when raising money is that by providing the food and water these poor people need will not help them maintain themselves independently, because organizations are only providing them essential supplies for surviving, preventing them from starvation. What Zuckerberg meant with his statement on the 10th anniversary of Facebook was that in order to effectively help everybody in the world who lives in third world countries they need technology. If food is continuously provided to these people, they will just keep on staying alive and dependent form these charitable groups. On the other hand, a revolutionary way of literally helping these people survive, without them depending on strangers, is with the use of technology, which would help meet article 26, for two reasons. First, people could use telecommunications by using for instance the telephones in order to communicate with people all around the world, so that business can easily and quickly be done. If there were not any type of source for transmission, work would be done more slowly, and the economy would take years to grow. Moreover, as Riccardo Braglia, CEO and managing director of Helsinn holding SA , stated, “Cell phones, as a way of telecommunicating has offered millions of people to communicate with small villages in the middle of nowhere, who