Computing has long been recognized as a means of ensuring that people from developing countries have a pathway to bettering their lives and joining the rest of the international community. Computing has been at the heart of many developmental programs in both the urban centers and rural centers. There have been efforts to increase the uptake of computing studies but the results have been mixed at best.
Whereas there is an almost universal recognition of computing as a development tool, there is some reluctance to undertake the activities that will make this dream a reality. One can lay the blame at the feet of government incompetence but there ought to be an element of personal responsibility in all this.
The first major issue that affects the level of computing in developing countries is the lack of infrastructure. There is a lack of transportation facilities to ensure that computers can get to the people in the rural areas. I take a recent example of a scheme to transport second hand computers from Europe to Africa.