Soon we’ll have far fewer excuses for not distributing the worlds most valuable information resources: libraries. What will it take for us to start reorganizing and exporting our libraries digitally for the sake of global education?

The good news is that, on several fronts, there are efforts underway to digitize published content on a massive scale. [...]

Here’s a great PDF version of a slightly dated — but far-seeing — report from the UN on the uses of emerging technologies in human development. It’s optimism is tempered with a good deal of experience — it is clear that there is no single, technological solution to the problems of extreme poverty and inequality. [...]