Molly Holzschlag Quotes

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

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.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.

Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.

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

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

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

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.

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.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.

Our goal in life ought to be to extend this medium [the Internet] so that it is available to every man, woman and child in the country.

The most dramatic effect of digital libraries will not be on us, the well-booked, but on the billions of people worldwide who are underserved by ordinary paper books.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

The Internet and digital technologies can and will boost economic, social, and political development, including by vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of speech and expression, which is key to empowering human rights.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

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.

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

The Web belongs to everyone.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.