[Advisors] Huff Post -- Canada's digital divide

[Marita Moll]

Here's an article on digital divide issues that various people on this 
list contributed to in some way.  Please share it around.

Angelina Chapin.  Huffington Post, Nov. 14, 2013

Digital divide:  Canada's poorest sacrifice basic needs to get connected.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada>

Yuji Toyozato clutches his ringing phone and panics. He has no idea how 
to answer it.

How could he be so stupid? He's owned the thing for two damned months, 
but still feels like a baby holding a grown-up's toy. As the ringtone 
becomes louder, his anxiety mounts. Green circles emanate from the phone 
icon, taunting him like a bully. "What's the matter? You can't pick me up?"

No. He doesn't know how.

/Why is something so simple for everyone else so hard for me?/

/Stupid, stupid./

Yuji hands me the Samsung Galaxy S3. It's an automated call from 
Microsoft with a password to access his Hotmail account. "You answer 
it," he says. Surely a younger person will know what to do. Yet I'm just 
as dumbfounded as I jab at that menacing green icon. But where Yuji 
feels shame, I feel blame.

/Why did Samsung screw up so badly? ........................... MORE 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada>
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