Technology Access Quotes

Women and girls are naturally agents of change. If we teach one girl to code, she will go on to teach more - we've seen this in our own programs and workshops around the country.

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.

We need an equity plan for technology in general.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

More people have smart phones than clean water

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.

I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. There's enormous opportunities to make IT more accessible to tens of millions of companies, kind of democratizing the ability for companies to gain access to IT.

We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.