Attitudes to Online Reading and Web-Based Instructions in Developing Societies

Access to information is an essential ingredient of development in the 21st century. We live in an age which is often appropriately referred to as the information age due primarily to the sheer volume of information available and the means available to rapidly retrieve them, so much so that the advanced economies of today are essentially based on efficient generation, management, dissemination, and utilization of information. Looking at things from a global perspective, it is clear that there is a great deal of imbalance in the extent to which societies are able to key into the information systems of the world. While the advanced societies race ahead in the quest for more information generation, dissemination and utilization, the developing world struggles with crippling ignorance and its serious implications. In the last century, a Canadian Education Secretary was quoted ABSTRACT