Space and the global vision of a typical village in the developing world

The 21st century is two years away. Yet there are areas in this World where even the car of the 19th century is still a very strange creature. Comparing such a remote village in Tanzania and a similarly remote village in the developed world, there is a gap of at least two cenuries between the two. This imbalance in development is one major consequence of poor education and exposure to technology. Major stakeholders in the use of space techniques for development are education, health, commerce, communications, agriculture and, more recently, the environment. Huge financial resources are poured into these sectors every year. Without attention to the need for changes in technology many villages may enter the 22nd century in the same shape in which they are today. This paper addresses the questions of a) what are the causes of, and b) what can be done to narrow, this development gap between the remote vilage in the developed world and an equally remote village in Tanzania. The narrowing of this gap gives a closer meaning to the attainment of the principle of the global village.