How are Chinese people addressing the problem of technology illiteracy in this movement toward Internet education?
FT: The Chinese recognize that education is a main component of competing in the 21st century. From what I’ve seen in the urban areas, the people are technologically savvy. When we were touring Tsinghu University, we walked through a building that was being renovated. There were workers with hammers pounding out concrete walls and such. Behind a plastic curtain on the left was the hub of the China Education and Research Network (CERN)–basically the Internet for China. On the right, behind another plastic curtain, was a computer lab with about 50 PCs. There was a list of people waiting to use those 50 computers to get on the Internet. The graduate students who were assisting us told us that those computers are busy all hours of the day. Also, driving around the city, I noticed that most billboards have Web addresses on them. For instance, China Telecom advertises not just their cell phone service, but also their ISP. SCT is working with several Chinese electric and gas utilities to enh
