case study Laos

the extent of the divide in Laos is quite high as only a few of them have phone lines and electricity in them regions and even less have computers as the cost of buying one and having it connected to the internet is far too great for the average person there to be able to afford. the problems that have caused the divide are the high costs of ICT in the area, the weather around, lack of It standards, poor ISP service and lack of language support. the impact on the divide is that alot of people cannot communicate outside of their own region of the country very easily because there are normally only a few regions with telephone connections and that can send messages from a mobile. the solutions that have been provided are, cantennae which is using things from around to make recievers to get a connection, a pedal powered wireless computer which connects that area to other pcs for a signal, and learning centres to teach people in the areas about computers and how to use them in there own language. i think the impacts of these solutions would be that learning would get alot easier as alot more places would be able to get access to the internet, people would be able to talk alot more as they would always have a connection, and this would mean that different parts of the region would be able to communicate with each other and before they could not.