Revised Work: If ICT and Modernization is development, how are we going to use them to develop our people and culture? Marked
Submitted By: Emmanuel Morris J. 1720
Technology
and Modernization have become the bare rack for every sector and society in the
21 century. Technology and Modernization should be used to improve and
aggressively better the lives of our people in a more positive direction,
however, technology and modernization shouldn’t be used in any form or manner
that will threating the existing of our people and culture.
We
can develop new methods and techniques in helping our farmers to improve the
ways in which they farm and preserve their crops through technology and
modernization. Technology like Drones and modern earth moving
equipment can be used to monitor large farm areas, live stocks, inaccessible
agro culture facilities, etc., we can also teach our farmer modernized methods
and techniques in preserving their crops and live stocks from damages before
getting to the market place. However, these technology and modern methods and
techniques should confirmed to our people ways of live and culture, taking into
consideration our environment and cultural values should have a place and be
preserved and not eliminated to only confine with Western values and erasing or
not respecting our people and culture values.
New
technology like 3D microscope, EMR machines, Wireless
Thermometer guns and other similar infrared body temperature measuring devices,
medications, etc., can be introduced into our health care facilities that will
improved health care delivery for our people. Modernized methods and techniques
in health services for example: Modern methods and techniques of training for
midwifery that are involved into home delivery in the rural areas where access
to health facilities are inaccessible can be introduced to reduce the numbers
of infant and maternal mortalities. But those technologies, modern methods, and
techniques should also take into consideration our environment and culture values
of our people. For instance, an EMR machine that will worked under certain
normal temperature in Great Britain will not work under that same temperature
in Uganda due to environmental and temperature changes. We should now start
thinking in advance on how to adapt or develop our own technology and modern
ways and procedures that confine to our environment and talking into
consideration our people and culture values.
Using Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to improve our People and Culture
ICT
has been and will always be an instrument for developing our People and
Culture. We can encourage the uses of cell phones in a more convincing and
agreed manner, especially in rural areas where there is a low-cost for communication.
Our people in those villages should use these cell phones to transact their
business by means of communicating with one another during and after business
transactions. Farmers can also be encouraged to use ICT to track their crops
information such as: When will be the next harvest, weather updates from those
cell phones will helped our farmers to have a clear idea on their projects and plans
for days and weeks ahead. Farmers should also be encouraged to use tracking
devices to monitor their livestock’s locations and safety from harms. Agriculture
farmers, Livestock’s farmers, and Agro farmers should be encouraged to use
electronic payment system for all of their goods and services, transactions
between sellers and buyers. Modern payment medium like electronic payment
techniques can be negotiated with our people and introduced within our culture,
transactions of money for goods and services for our people that have
unreachability bank issues will be things of the past.
Technology and modern techniques like Google virtual class, Zoom virtual conferencing, Cloud conferencing, augmented reality, are all technologies that are the forefront leaders to ensure that our people adapt to new and modern life style of learning. These technology and modern techniques should also be tailored to address language barrier issues for our kids and adults who only speak and understand our local languages or vernaculars. These technology and modern advances shouldn’t be tailored to Western values and needs and then be imposed on our people on the receiving end that have the propensity of diminishing their culture values and way of life. When considering these new technology and advances, we should take into consideration preventive and adaptive measures that will confine to our cultural and environmental setting and not just adapting to new technology and modern ways of life that will destroyed our people and their cultural values systems. Provisions should be may in those technologies and modernized methods and techniques that will translate general languages like English, French, Spanish, etc., to our local languages and vernaculars that will not be diminished or leave behind people who have language barrier issues.
In conclusion, if we must use or adapt to ICT and Modernization in development to improve our people and culture, we should start thinking out or the box as Africans to either invent or advocate for those technologies and adapt to modernized development that will not violate, diminish, disrespect, or ignore our people and their cultural values. We should now start to think to become our own producer of our kind of technology and development plans rather than recipient.
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