The use of the Internet.

Maybe, the Internet network is what the Ilustrators dreamed during their existence: the global access for information, culture, and knowledge. And I say maybe, because somebody could say that the access to the Internet, and the content that it supplies, is not global. And it is completely true, as we I am going to show below.

Taking a look at www.internetworldstats.com (web that I highly recommend to visit), I found some relevant information about the problem. The difference between the percentages of population that uses daily Internet of USA and Africa is shameful: 77% against 10%. I think it is not necessary to determine which percentage belongs to each country.

I could throw up more and more devastating data of this terrible gap, that not only exists in the use of Internet, even this probably is one of the less important gaps between developed countries and not developed ones. But I prefer to think about the reasons of such a problem, and look for solutions. I do not like a Globalization System that needs the poverty of millions of people for the wealth of some of the owners of the world. If we talk about the use of the Internet, we are talking about "culture and information poverty", which from my point of view, is not less devastating than other ones. So, this system, would be the most important reason of the gap.

This digital divide, is the root of many problems. As the American citizen has the possibility (and sometimes the power) to know how the world is going on and control the information that the network has, the African citizen has no idea about the "other world". It become impossible for him to know the world they are living in, the enormous differences between the life he is suffering in Africa and the life others are enjoying. This So, this digital divide could be (and I am sure it is) a very powerful weapon to control the worlds model operation, and its maintenance.

In conclusion, the Digital Divide is a problem to be solved by us, who are aware of the problems this world has. Internet would be a very useful thing, and I dare to say that it is the most important humanity's discovery. But it could not become as good as it could be if it does not arrive at all the world's homes.