Re:Show HN: Introducing KA Lite, an offline version of Khan ...
by stchangg on Friday December 14, 2012 @06:23PM
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Congrats, Jamie and team! As a Khan Academy developer I can attest that this was a substantial technical undertaking.
"While it's possible that within, say, 10 years, internet access will have reached near global ubiquity, that shouldn't stop us from actively finding ways to work around its current limitations, to reach populations in need; waiting 10 years means letting already disadvantaged communities fall another generation behind, perpetuating the global digital divide as we move into whatever its next instantiation may be."
++. Kudos for highlighting (and tackling) the compounding nature of inequality.
"While it's possible that within, say, 10 years, internet access will have reached near global ubiquity, that shouldn't stop us from actively finding ways to work around its current limitations, to reach populations in need; waiting 10 years means letting already disadvantaged communities fall another generation behind, perpetuating the global digital divide as we move into whatever its next instantiation may be."
++. Kudos for highlighting (and tackling) the compounding nature of inequality.