by Alfonz Koncan | Mar 26, 2020 | Digital Divide
I started working entirely from home over a week ago, preempting the majority of small companies and other organizations as they started to respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. All is going well here, and work is proceeding. To some extent. What is not really working so...
by Alfonz Koncan | Mar 24, 2020 | Digital Divide
This following story is quite inspirational and particularly appealing. The story is about one teacher in a small country with few resources, and how this teacher accomplished a great outcome for his school. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)...
by Alfonz Koncan | Mar 23, 2020 | Digital Divide
When Galen Manners was offered a promotion at his job, he didn’t want to relocate to the big city from his family in rural Kansas, where he helped his two brothers run their 2,000-acre farm in his spare time. Shara Tibken/CNET His employer gave him the option to...
by Alfonz Koncan | Mar 16, 2020 | Digital Divide
Noted earlier was that mobile platforms need regular refreshing. One should be aware that there are more mobile devices in use today than desktop and laptop computers. These mobile devices come with two challenges. Firstly, the capital costs (either as a one-time fee...
by Alfonz Koncan | Mar 13, 2020 | Digital Divide
From Wire Pairs to Fibre Optic Cable Winnipeggers were treated to somewhat of a surprise on March 2, 2020, when Bell MTS announced a major investment to replace the considerable copper wire throughout their city with fibre optics. A $400 million investment was...
by Alfonz Koncan | Feb 24, 2020 | Digital Divide
There is a need to swap out technology due to its obsolescence and advancements made elsewhere, in at times as little as two-year cycles. Noted here is that new mobile phones are introduced every two years or so, and while this rollout goes on, at times the older...
