My IRP topic

In this EBP course, we have an Independent Research Project as well as the reguler classes. It might be our huge task in this 10 week.

The topic that I select in this research is the Global Digital Divide and focus on this topic in India.

When I worked as a system engineer in Tokyo, We sometimes had guest engineers from India to our office. (Some of them actually lived in the US, though.) They are excellent skilled people. ( Not only that they are but also really diligent. I was amazed that one day I heard that they came to the office at 6am. When I asked one of them about the reason later, his answer was "Just got up early from jet lag and just had nothing to do." ) Today in the IT industry, India-power is already measurable and they are huge human resources in some IT-developed country like Japan and the US.

However, in fact, several well known problems are still in India like luck of educational opportunities, immature infrastructural development and less accessibility to digital information for a lot of people. The definition of "global digital divide" in the background reading I did ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_digital_divide ) ,is distinguishable from the "digital divide" between social classes(people), is a geographical division. However, I think the case of this in India is complicated. I still do not understand clearly and how to make out this point. But I am already deeply interested in this topic and want to know what the problems are in this powerful country. There may be cultural, political or historical issues underling this phenomenon.


Attn teachers,

Because it is blog, a global tool anybody can access ( I am not sure who want to, though ) and also just for my writing practice, I write some description ( like introduction of this post ) knowingly. Of course, I know everyone in the class knows what I am doing.