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The digital divide describes the gap among individuals, house-
holds, businesses and geographic areas on socio-economic
level, as well as unequal opportunities to access information and
communication technologies (ICTs). Castells holds the view
that informationalism of shifting global networks creates a vola-
tile and ruthless world. Those who do not contribute to the new
world economies are discarded. Consequently, much of Africa
is condemned to information black holes as Africa becomes the
graveyard of failed ICT development programmes. However, by
sharing expertise and goodwill, worldwide university networks
of science and technology can reverse the inequities brought
about by informationalism. We have a shared academic respon-
sibility to explore feasible research frameworks on the use of
ICT in developing contexts. Bronfenbrenner maintains that the
ecology of human development is experimental by nature and
design. From his Human Ecological Systems Theory we propose
a research framework for the development of socially transfor-
mative ICT goals for implementation and validation at the
School for Continuing Teacher Education at the North-West
University, South Africa.
