Allow me to quote a 16 year old South African:
"I am a 16 year old and have lived in the rural area for the past fourteen years. In all these past years I used a candle stick to study and do my homework. The chalkboard has been the mainstay teaching aid at school. When a few solar panels were installed at school, I did not have even a faint notion of how it was going to work. A few months later we received an overhead projector. That was the beginning of a new school experience. The following equipment was later received: 20 computers, 2 television sets, and a video machine. Recently we have been connected to the Learning Channel Campus and the Internet through the satellite. Learning is now going to be research oriented. That is, we shall use worksheets and we shall use the Internet as the main source of information. In the past we spent much of our time copying notes from the chalkboard. The school has set itself a new vision for the new millennium. It wants to produce learners who will follow careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and others. This was a far-fetched dream a few years ago."
Cheap clean electrical power is fundamental to the future...some are adding access to electrical power as a new human right...without it there is little if any social progress. Without power there is no connectivity and no opportunity to participate in world commerce.
"I am a 16 year old and have lived in the rural area for the past fourteen years. In all these past years I used a candle stick to study and do my homework. The chalkboard has been the mainstay teaching aid at school. When a few solar panels were installed at school, I did not have even a faint notion of how it was going to work. A few months later we received an overhead projector. That was the beginning of a new school experience. The following equipment was later received: 20 computers, 2 television sets, and a video machine. Recently we have been connected to the Learning Channel Campus and the Internet through the satellite. Learning is now going to be research oriented. That is, we shall use worksheets and we shall use the Internet as the main source of information. In the past we spent much of our time copying notes from the chalkboard. The school has set itself a new vision for the new millennium. It wants to produce learners who will follow careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and others. This was a far-fetched dream a few years ago."
Cheap clean electrical power is fundamental to the future...some are adding access to electrical power as a new human right...without it there is little if any social progress. Without power there is no connectivity and no opportunity to participate in world commerce.
