The Right to Internet Access
No sooner do I declare it a slow technology news week than this story comes out. Finland has declared access to the Internet a basic human right. This is the most recent news in a growing number of countries, backed by the UN, making such efforts.
From a training perspective, this is another barrier to web-based training knocked down. If Internet access (or more accurately, access to the information on the Internet) is a basic human right, so is access to online training and other organizational programs.
Although I wouldn’t expect that such efforts would necessarily lead to Internet-in-every-household, it certainly encourages such a movement. And the closer we get to having such consistent access to and familiarity with the Internet around the world, the less trouble introducing any online program will be.
Related articles from NeoAcademic:
- Academic Publishing on the Internet
- SIOP 2010: No Wireless Internet
- Training in a Knowledge-based Economy
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