About a third of the world's population has never made a phone call … one in twelve people have never used a computer.

Alf Hermida
In industrialised countries it's all around us. Apart from newspapers and radio stations, we now have the internet, or you can even get information on your mobile phone. If we look at, say, school pupils, you could have a wealth of information at your finger tips, using the internet.

If you're living in Bangladesh, your school might not have any computers, might not have access to the internet, and that puts it at a big disadvantage when it comes to your education, to when it comes to your future prospects, and your chances of getting a good career and a good job.

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	Zvukový záznam lekce 6

VOCABULARY

it's all around us - jsme obklopeni
mobile phone - mobilní telefon
at your fingertips - “přímo u nosu”, (u konečků prstů)
access - přístup
disadvantage - nevýhoda




There are more than 300 million computers connected to the Internet around the world. But you need more than just a simple connection.

Alf Hermida
There are several big problems when it comes to internet access. One of the big ones is that a lot of the material on the internet is in English, and that instantly puts a barrier up to a lot of people in the world because they have to speak at least some English to understand the information there.

The other thing is just the connection. To connect to the internet, you need to connect either through cables or you could do it through radio waves. But in many parts of the developing world, what you have is a very slow connection over a telephone line. Telephone lines in a lot of these parts of the world are quite unreliable, they're a bit crackly, they might have some interference on the line.

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	Zvukový záznam lekce 7

VOCABULARY

barrier - překážka, bariéra
connection - spojení
unreliable - nespolehlivý
crackly lines - přerušované, praskající telefonní linky rušení
interference - rušení