@atomicpoet 1.??? Computer Science and Information...

1.??? Computer Science and Information Technology is a required subject in Malaysian public schools. During the pandemic the entire nation had to engage in online learning?? Digital poverty is a real thing here, just like anywhere, but presumably a large number of households had a computer or laptop?? There were also a number of free or subsidized laptop schemes for lower income households. Most Malaysian college n uni students have laptops??

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@keropokin @atomicpoet During the pandemic it was more common for kids to use tablets or phones than a laptop. While most college/uni students have laptops, a large number of school leavers don't go to uni. Most of the population uses a phone as their main device now.

While millennials had a higher number of computers, the trend seems to be towards phones and tablets for the younger generation. Laptops and desktops aren't what people are using to access social media

2 Apr 2023 at 18:13 | Open on ecoevo.social

Dendan Setia (Nins)

@keropokin
Not really, this very much depends on socioeconomic class and region - remember the last subsidized scheme in the pandemic is not laptops but those were Samsung tablets, and tailored for uni students. Subsidized laptops never really happened at federal level, at most were relabelled Chromebooks

@rakyat might have more recollection as well

@atomicpoet

3 Apr 2023 at 3:36 | Open on mefi.social

Dendan Setia (Nins)

@keropokin
And in terms of platforms, i can at least testify an array of grassroots journalism projects had outputs that moved from helping beneficiaries set up blogspot accounts to helping them set up fb pages, because it's 'easier'.
@rakyat @atomicpoet

3 Apr 2023 at 3:39 | Open on mefi.social