Shug on 21/9/2007 at 06:09
Literally recall somebody telling me years ago about the 'great firewall of China' in place on their net access, where you could be imprisoned for a fairly substantial stretch if you were caught breaking out and accessing blocked gear etc
Scots Taffer on 21/9/2007 at 16:14
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
Speaking of "divide"s, I shaved my taint this morning.
Curious - with the grain, or against?
Rug Burn Junky on 21/9/2007 at 21:12
Across. I'm a pro.
catbarf on 22/9/2007 at 00:01
Quote Posted by aguywhoplaysthief
Try South Korea and Zimbabwe.
For a while I'm pretty sure that South Korea had the highest broadband distribution, and Zimbabwe is essentially the most fucked up country in the world, so that's about as much contrast as your going to get.
Seconded. I used to live in Kenya and Tanzania, and I can tell you that Zimbabwe is
REALLY fucked up.
The president, Mugabe, is currently trying hard to kick all the white farmers out of the country (leaving them homeless and penniless) and replace them with African farmers who have no idea what the fuck they're doing with the land. The place is one huge clusterfuck.
utherdoul on 27/9/2007 at 13:10
Quote Posted by Martin Karne
Divide this!
Try N.Korea and S.Korea, enough contrast in the same geographic area, people starving and the ones in the army are eating well.
If you think about them using computers, then think again.
Thoroughly seconded! This is a good idea for a Digital Divide paper... The North, like you say, are starving, scrounging all the money they can muster and technologically a fair way behind their cousins in the South, who have been largely Americanised and thus have absorbed a lot of the technology, culture and the openmindedness of the West. In addition, South Korea is one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, so when contrasted with a struggling economy just across the border, its something worth investigating (you'd have to include a fair bit of history with that).
Try (
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/technology/23link.html?ref=business) here and (
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/ID24Dg01.html) here for starters...
Telliamed on 30/9/2007 at 18:37
America vs America
Like Kolya says, the difference that access to technology makes is most evident when all other factors are equivalent. North/South Korea or Isreal/Palestine are bad examples because those societies are separated for political reasons.
utherdoul on 1/10/2007 at 01:15
Quote Posted by Telliamed
America vs America
Like Kolya says, the difference that access to technology makes is most evident when all other factors are equivalent. North/South Korea or Isreal/Palestine are bad examples because those societies are separated for political reasons.
While I agree what you're saying, I don't think these are
bad examples. A divide could be for any reason - political or otherwise - and it sounds like the paper is pretty open, so choosing N/S Korea or Israel/Palestine are just as viable as America / America. If two societies are separated for political reasons, are they not divided? Does this political divide not cause the technological / digital divide?
But ultimately it would be pretty interesting to see two societies within one country compared (although many South Koreans consider N and S to still be one country - just temporarily separated).
