I must admit that I have a bias. I have a strong bias towards the positive potential information technology. I envision information technology as a key part of the solution to many of our local, global, environmental and social problems. I believe that information technology is also a great equalizer, a motivated person with basic reading and writing skills can over time be a competent self-taught technology professional At the same time I have found that the full potential of current information technology has not been realized, and that is largely due to the fact that everyone does not effective access to information technology. In order to bring the full capability of information technology solutions to local, global, environmental and social problems, to enable people to collaboratively create solutions to these problems, access to technology must be universal.

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