Il ministero dell'educazione Inglese vorrebbe assicurare una connessione Broad Band ad "every child in the country". Demagogia? Forse no. Forse siamo di fronte ad una scommessa per il futuro del paese, un nuovo concetto di scuola dell'obbligo dove Internet (o un "gated garden" ad hoc?) affiancherà i libri di testo, compensando il divario formativo che può scaturire da una elitarietà dell'accesso ad internet delle nuove generazione, che potrebbe vedere escluse le classi più povere o meno propense culturalmente a fornire ai giovani studenti di un PC conesso alla rete (Un bel business per Microsoft, e l'open source?).
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Schools minister touts 'one interweb per child' pork barrel | The Register .
Microsoft pleads ignorance on 'one interweb per child' pork barrel | The Register .
The schools minister, Jim Knight, has decided that every child in the country absolutely must have broadband at home, and has called on technology vendors to help him make it happen. More than one million UK children don't have access to a computer at home, according to government figures. Now it seems that the ministers intend to compel industry and parents to share the burden with taxpayers to bridge the divide.
Microsoft says it doesn't know anything about the government's plan to deliver home broadband to every child in the country, despite claims from the schools minister that he is putting pressure on it to drop prices.