ISKAPARATE addresses the digital divide

When I hear some business people gush about how the Philippines can take a lead in what is called the Industrial Revolution 4.0, I cannot share their enthusiasm. As people talk about Artificial Intelligence, Robotization, the Internet of Things, Big Data and other components of the digital world, I dread the intensification of the digital divide, another manifestation of the grossly unequal distribution of income and wealth in the Philippines.I already see this in the education sector in which the shift to online instruction necessitated by the pandemic has clearly divided the student population into two distinct classes: the children of the well to do who have all the resources to follow classes online effectively and efficiently and the great masses of pupils, especially in the public school system, who are learning very little because they do not have the resources, neither the internet connections nor the digital devices, to benefit from online learning.

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