Technology for the third world students

To be a technology student is a great thing particularly if you are from the third world, i cant comment how it feels for the technology students from the other side of the divide because myself am from the third world side.
Human existence has seen so many change, Agrarian revolution, industrial revolution and then what can be called information revolution. I have a mind that tells me that this last revolution is the best of them because in it there are chances of seeing a possibility of equality and fair chances because, in my perspective as a student in iformation technology am able to achieve as much as a student in the developed world.
The fact that we can get facilities like free books and overwelming free information from the internet makes this possible.
One other very important thing that i think in my view is an advantage is the fact that the basic resource for the technology student, IT in this case is the PC which if added the free software that we have available to us just gets everything going, thanks to the great people like Richard Stallman who believe that "it doesnt make alot of sense to spend your life building walls to divide humanity, it just kills interraction and hence development".
Imagine in our local colleges we are trying to make everyone embrace open source and work harder to give returns to this field, the open source field that has been a great blessing people in the third world.
Hope that whoever reads this finds something positive in this whole thing.
Thanks friends on the internet.