e-Literate

Here’s a thought-provoking piece on how rural America could benefit from the outsourcing trend if we just get on the stick. There are two pieces to this; one is getting high-speed connections out into the hinterlands and the other is to provide the people with the training required to enable them to make a living as knowledge workers. (A third might be developing and promoting business models that are friendly to a relatively distributed rural workforce.) Naturally, online learning could play a big part in making this happen by bringing the educational mountain to Mohammed, so to speak.