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Youths! Science and ICTs for development
 ICTs
" The power of computing enables people to pursue their passion and
realize their potential, no matter who their are. Through global
citizenship efforts and local partnerships ;one of the ways we are
helping to strengthening the communities is to extend the benefits of
technology to the people that can benefit most" Bill Gates, Microsoft
Chairman  We realize our shared desire for better economic growth,
information rich environment and improved technology for local,
regional, national and global development. No human settlement and
thus no society can claim to be sustainable if a large proportion of
its population does not have access to information and the emerging
technologies. The development cannot be achieved as long as humanity
remains divided into rich and poor. A sizable minority enjoys
plentiful food s, seemingly unlimited mobility, access to cutting
edge technology and other basic amenities of life in this modern age.
By linking farmers to market information, workers to customers,
patients to doctors, and students to their teachers the economy of
sure nation is sure to grow and develop. ICTs, however, is still
concentrated in the industrial nations, where there are 41 internet
users per 100 people compared to 2.3 per 100 in developing nations.
The enormous gap in phone access between the rich and poor countries
is also alarming. Uganda became the first African country to have a
mobile than fixed line customers; some 30 other nations followed
suit, so that mobile lines now outnumber fixed lines in African at
a higher ratio than any other continent, which is to show that the
investment of ICTs in Africa will definitely be of greater efficiency.
We realize the need for the involvement of the isolated communities
in the information society, at least each locality in each community
should have the right to one computer per locality, they should the
be equipped with the latest technologies even if not on a wide range.
We discover that local communities have the desire to learn and be
taught so as the young people.
Young people are often free from the responsibilities of the adult
life, energized by new ideas, full of energy and motivation, and they
had long been leading innovators, Bill Gates was one of them. It is
co cliché to say that young people have pushed fro grater freedom to
develop, learn, communicate and escape the restrictions of
established systems. ICTs and Science had made this possible for
development.
 SCIENCE
 "it is often scientist just starting out on their career who
formulate new concepts that later overturn accepted scientific
paradigms, sometimes being honored with a Nobel Prize, to support
creativity and the progress of knowledge. Is it important to
recognize up- and coming generations of scientist by granting them
the necessary means to ensure the scientist by granting them the
necessary independence to pursue their own ideas" Bertil Anderson,
member of the Nobel Committee and director of European Science
Foundation.Informing is quite different from communication, informing
deals with alerting people and giving advise while communication
deals with conveying ,providing knowledge and sharing experience. At
this juncture there is a question about the public communication od
science and technology. Science is inspired and nourished by
imagination, which is followed by the joy and hard-life of the
laboratory. History had made us know that science involves people
being haunted by the possibility that their reasoning could lead
them astray, which gave rise fro seeking public opinion, and
empirical proof before publishing their claims.
The much talked about digital divide might not be connected to
the "access" but the ability of using it. This is true in the science
that there are a percentage of people who have access to ICTs but are
not able to maximize its efficiency. A large number of people
subscribe to the idea that science must be communicated, which can be
best achieved through ICTs. Researchers were among the first to use
the Internet to communicate their ideas with numerous publications,
and the likes. As a result, those interested in science can gain
access to the genuine information.Scientific communication must there
fore be an integral part of government's budgets and not considered
as a luxury or a waste of time and money to the downfall of research
work in that country. Science is a passion for those involved, but
there is need for us to make this known to the public and demonstrate
the relevance of the research efforts, which can aid in nation
building. Investing funds in science communication is not a waste but
a way of investing in the future.There is need to capture the
interest of young people, dispelling their doubts and revealing a
career that remains vague in many people mind, and highlighting the
importance of science to nation building.
Raphael Adesiyan, Project director LIONS-ICTs (2006)