The World Health Organisation today released figures showing that “Zimbabwe’s women have an average life expectancy of 34 years and men on average do not live past 37”.
Just an hour ago I was reading a letter, in the Guardian, form a 76 year old internet user who wrote that going online was one of the best decisions they’d made in decades. I was reminded of my mother’s recently deceased 99 year old godmother, Eva George, who used to send me emails from Chicago.
Those of us in the UK and most Western countries worry that the digital divide between the old and young is growing whilst, at the same time, those in much of the Southern Hemisphere worry about reaching what we call “middle age”. It’s the World’s great shame and one that I haven’t seen the internet doing much to resolve. Just something to think about…