Geography Edexcel Unit 3 Technological Fix

1. Technological Fix
1. Why is there inequality in access to technology ?
a) What is technology and how is developed?
b) Global distribution of a range of technologies in relation
to level of development
c) Implications for those who lack access to basic technology
d) patterns of access using factors such as patents, religion,
cost, politics.
Learning Objectives:
• Realise that access to technology varies in different parts of
the world
• Assess the extent to which some parts of the world remain
disconnected from technological developments

2. StarterStarter
Identify the technological gadgets that you use in your
everyday life
- Sort these into i) necessity or ii) luxury
Identify any barriers that may prevent access to
technology

3. What is the geographical
distribution of technology?

4. What do these things all need
to work?
• Map here

5. What does this map show?

6. Internet users per country
(2012)

8. What is happeing around the
world with internet speeds?
• Wales broadband speeds
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37635
• Japan, USA and Cumbria:
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sc
i_tech/2009/broadband_world/

9. Are times changing?
• Is the sun rising on an African solar
revolution
• Cheap African solar energy could power
UK homes
• Should we solar panel the Sahara
Desert?

10. News
article
here

11. Classwork and complete at home
• Using p177-181, the information in this
PowerPoint plus any further research,
to answer the question:
To what extent do some parts of the
world remain disconnected from
technological developments?

12. To what extent do some parts of the world
remain disconnected from technological
developments?
• What factors affect the varying access
to technology around the world?
• How does scale affect this access eg
rural v urban, land-locked countries etc
• Does wealth alone explain the
geographical pattern of technology?
• If not, what other factors affect the
Technology Gap?