I always thought that to be connected should be free. The ability to express one's idea is a right. It is an essential part of being human. It provides self reflection that allows us to mirror our thoughts with others.

If we couldn't express any of our views and opinions, we are not then being the perfect person we ought to be naturally. As such, we couldn't consider ourselves as even fulfilling our essence. The right to express in any medium should always be available to everyone.

I appeal therefore to businesses and establishments to make the internet accessible to all. Provide a terminal for people to use, as a big step in supporting our need to communicate. Let us advocate to empower even the less fortunate to experience being connected. Let's make it a habit to assist and promote the internet, just like what we have done with the Disabled - by putting ramps for their access. If we all can share the experience of mobility, why not the internet as a window to the world and the vast ideas it may impart to the less fortunate?

How it saddened me today, that i asked my son to call his friend and he answered "they don't have a phone?" I said again email them, and still he answered "they don't have one?" It is not as if I was surprised, it was more of a question of deprivation that my son couldn't connect to them. Not even the  popularity of social networks like FB and TWITTER is available to the youth living in the age of the internet, when I thought the internet has become part of our lives already.

It's not Free after all. I know that a gadget or a Tab comes with a price. But how much really is it compared to our incomes and the economic transfers we do daily? Will an IPad be worth a huge portion of these transfers? If we approach it collectively, can we be certain that it's that expensive to even deny people of the ability to be connected?

I am looking forward to the time when i need to connect with anyone or a group of people, i can do it free as my right. I hope we would realize that to communicate is a need. The internet has provided a platform for this, and has recognised its importance in our lives through Skype, FB, Twitter, and numerous forums and chat live technologies so popular nowadays. But we should be conscious and do our part too, just like how we saw it with the Disabled - Let's make Connecting available to everyone.