Campaign Against American E-Partheid

In this article, it addresses the question: "Have wondered and worried about the life style implications of the information technology explosion on youth, their socioeconomic viability, and the need for radically different educational interventions for their survival?" You're not alone.

Statistics, from Falling Through the Net III, just released by the US Commerce Department and other authoritative reports, powerfully show the accelerating tragedy of poor and ethnic young people in our country, too purposeless, too neglected, too unlettered and too residentially isolated to be part of the cyber careers that bypass society's default warehouses of morgues and prisons.

The "Future Centers" strategy calls for the introduction of IT training exactly where it is most scarce and most needed in neighborhoods and the institutions belonging to the poor and ethnic minorities.Through offering turnkey training in word processing, website design, desktop publishing, spreadsheet accounting, to PC repair with optional advanced certifications and accredited degrees, we have motivated young people to learn to think of themselves professionally at 35 such Future Centers across this nation making a new paradigm of esteem based on what they have learned over what they wear, for a value system conversion.

A good idea to implement general IT knowledge to people, especially children. This will allow for a leg-up when approached with many technology-based problems both in the classroom and in the real world. However, this 'Campaign against American E-Partheid' seems better in theory than implementation. It is grandiose to think that because someone is not particularly versed in many aspects of technology that they will be automatic outcasts of society. I think a much better solution is an integration of technology with support from the community, can help bring everyone accustom to the inevitability of technology as part of our ever growing world.