New Village – “Leapfrogging the Grid”
on a Micro Scale

Professor Terrell Ward Bynum

Information Ethics in the Underdeveloped World:
A Project of the Research Center on Computing & Society
The Research Center on Computing & Society at Southern Connecticut State University has launched a project to identify and study information ethics issues in the underdeveloped world. Our goal is to identify problems and opportunities related to ICT (information and communication technologies) and then to help people in underdeveloped lands to solve or prevent such problems or take advantage of promising opportunities made possible by ICT.

The first step in this project was the writing of a “concept paper” for distribution at the World Energy Technologies Summit held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France in February 2004. The paper, which is an exercise in “positive computer ethics,” explores ways to take advantage of miniature computerized devices to help solve health and economics problems in underdeveloped countries. It is entitled “New Village – ‘Leapfrogging the Grid’ on a Micro Scale” and it was very well received at the Paris summit. We include the paper here as an online article as well as a downloadable PDF file. In the near future, we will also publish two student commentaries on the paper by undergraduate students at Southern Connecticut State University. We will include them for their useful ideas, and to serve as examples of excellent papers for other students to read.

1. Introduction
2. Description of “Old Village”
3. Clean Drinking Water
4. Educational Opportunities
5. Improved Health Care
6. The Need for an Information Center in Old Village
7. “Local” Employment in the Information Age – The Birth of “New Village”
8. Conclusion – Cultural Considerations

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