Aleksander Kwasniewski Quotes

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world.

The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in.

The entire Nation has joined hands to make the dream of a Digital India into a reality. Youngsters are enthusiastic, industry is supportive and the government is proactive. India is yearning for a digital revolution.

As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

We've got to get people across this country believing they can be a part of a technology future, that that's going to work for their families in an empowering way.

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.

The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.