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	Global digital divide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike the traditional notion of the "digital divide" between social classes, the "global digital divide" is essentially a geographical division.
		The concept of the digital divide was originally popularized with regard to the disparity in Internet access between rural and urban areas of the United States of America.
		This global divide is often characterized as falling along what is sometimes called the north-south divide of "northern" wealthier nations and "southern" poorer ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_digital_divide (898 words)

	The Digital Divide
		Given variations in wealth and related factors, the digital divide between wealthy and less wealthy nations will undoubtedly persist, but this does not mean that conditions are not improving in the latter.
		The Global Digital Divide Initiative was launched at the Annual Meeting 2000 in Davos with the purpose of developing and propagating creative public-private sector initiatives to bridge the global digital divide.
		Digital opportunity initiatives are unlikely to succeed fully unless the wider economic environment is healthy and conducive to private enterprise.
	www.bestwebtraining.com /digital_divide.htm (8296 words)

	NEOISSUE.com: Divide
		The global digital divide is a term used to describe “great disparities in opportunity to access the Internet and the information and...
		The definition of 'digital' was fuzzy in the context of 'digital divide'.
		The digital divide is not a clear single gap that divides a society into two groups.
	www.neoissue.com /divide.html (1022 words)

	Teresa Peters, "Bridging the Digital Divide" Global Issues, November 2003
		It is difficult to gain an overall understanding of the digital divide, the proposed solutions, and what is having a real impact, when there are multiple definitions of the problem, conflicting views on whether it is getting better or worse, and various opinions on the key factors affecting it.
		Bridges.org has seen that the digital divide is growing around the world, despite the fact that all countries and all groups within countries, even the poorest, are increasing their access to and use of ICT.
		To cross the digital divide and put ICT to effective use to improve people's lives, countries and communities must be "e-ready" in terms of infrastructure, access, training, and a legal and regulatory framework that will foster ICT use.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itgic/1103/ijge/gj08.htm (1992 words)

	Global Digital Divide
		The social divide is the examination of the gap between the information rich and poor in each nation.
		Digital technology can have an impact on the flow of investment, goods and global services in the global market place.
		The next commentary will examine the simultaneous expanding, contracting and splitting of the digital divide and suggests that educational institutions have a more dominant role to play in minimising the effects of the second level digital divide.
	homepage.idx.com.au /plu/writings/professional/ddglobal.htm (1133 words)

	Finance & Development, September 2001 - On the Global Digital Divide
		This article outlines both the digital opportunity and the digital divide and argues that bridging the divide is a precondition for a worldwide creativity revolution to blossom.
		This is Barzun's description of the digital divide, written as if it were being viewed from after the year 2300 but actually reflecting New York's reality in 1995—just before the Internet created the greatest equity wealth boom in the history of mankind.
		At present, the digital divide mirrors the technology gap separating the rich countries from the poor ones—a gap that opened up during the industrial revolution and has yet to be fully bridged.
	www.imf.org /external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/ishaq.htm (2391 words)

	Don't ignore the global digital divide \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The key point is that the global effort underway among governments, businesses, academia and the philanthropic community to bridge the digital divide isn't about distributing sophisticated technology to the undeserving, it's about how to expand access to information and communication technologies to promote social and economic development.
		If we are ever to bridge the digital divide and open the knowledge economy to people in the developing world, entrepreneurs worldwide will need to spread the "entrepreneurial gospel." They will need to join with others to promote entrepreneurship and they will need to serve as role models and mentors for those creating new enterprises.
		The digital divide may be difficult to bridge, but opportunities to apply new technologies for economic development and social good continue to grow.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-530285.html (1050 words)

	Global Kids \| Leadership \| Digital Divide Activist Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Digital Divide Activist Project examines the impact of the Digital Divide on communities of color and youth in New York City public schools.
		From the results of this survey, we concluded that while the digital divide still impacts youth of color, the broad strokes used to describe it obfuscate the comfort and familiarity with the Internet that many urban youth possess.
		The project was designed to inform students about the digital divide as a global human rights issue, train them how to identify its impact within their community, and support them to develop and implement an action plan.
	www.ea911.org /leadership/digidivide (512 words)

	Seven Bridges Over the Global Digital Divide
		This digital divide separates a few hundred million users of the Internet, most of them located in a small number of "digital-have" countries, from over 5 billion people who are unable to access the wide variety of Internet digital media.
		A bridge across the digital divide can easily be a low priority for a country with limited resources when compared with budget priorities like education and literacy, security, AIDS and other health issues, overpopulation, housing, hunger, and providing jobs for large numbers of undereducated people.
		The countries that are least prepared to bridge the digital divide have average lifespans that are not much longer than might have been expected 2000 years ago.
	evolutionarymedia.com /papers/digitalDivide.htm (14001 words)

	CyberLearning.org-Digital Divide Book
		Amid all of the talk about the digital divide, there is little to point to in the way of effective solutions.
		The authors show how the digital divide impacts a number of key institutions such as education, access to jobs and training and lifelong learning and may be closing window of opportunity for social and economic betterment for today’s disadvantaged groups.
		This chapter provides in-depth analysis of the digital divide from the global perspective and examines what we can learn from the number of countries that have created effective policies to cross the digital divide.
	www.cyberlearning.org /links/digital_divide.asp (1258 words)

	DDN Articles - The Global Digital Divide: An Egyptian Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To bridge the digital divide, Dr. Nazif stressed the importance of education, government involvement, especially in the procurement of electronic technology for their work, inclusion of the private sector, ordinary citizens, and non governmental organizations in the planning stages.
		While acknowledging that the global digital divide will not disappear any time soon, most of the discussants emphasized the need for governments to keep up with new information technology (IT), as governments are the largest consumers of IT services.
		The role of government in Egypt and other developing countries in bridging the digital divide was emphasized in the discussion.
	www.digitaldivide.net /articles/view.php?ArticleID=333 (733 words)

	Global Kids \| Leadership \| Digital Divide Activist Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Global Kids has worked for the past twelve years to develop a successful youth development process that inspires young people to become engaged with domestic and global policy issues.
		Surfing Alone: Lesson From The Global Kids' Digital Divide Survey was written by Barry Joseph and Robert Klein, with the editorial assistance of Carole Artigiani and Jonah Kokodyniak.
		The areas of the digital divide that they think are most important to society are the facts that racial minorities and those of low income have less access to computers and the Internet.
	www.globalkids.org /Leadership/DigiDivide/surfingalone.jsp (1497 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Yu: Terrorism And The Global Digital Divide
		Thus, bridging the global digital divide is important not only because it helps the less developed countries, but also because it furthers our war on terrorism.
		Attempts to bridge the global digital divide not only would alleviate mistrust among the less developed countries, but also would help reduce the tension in the world trading system and the sense of isolation among people living in those countries.
		Some critics question the urgency of bridging the global digital divide and note that what the very poor countries need is clean drinking water, food, schools, and medicine, not computers.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /commentary/20020211_yu.html (1700 words)

	Global Digital Divide Still Very Much in Existence
		Although ICT has the potential to provide jobs for women and improve their lives, the report notes that women generally continue to earn lower incomes, suffer higher unemployment, and are often concentrated in less skilled jobs.
		The inability to assimilate and benefit from ICT that results may be the most significant challenge inherent in the spread of the digital economy in coming years.
		Reducing other aspects of the digital divide, such as wage differences and the gender gap, will also depend on improved education, the report said.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=569351 (738 words)

	The Digital Divide
		This global digital divide may hinder the ability of non-industrialized economies to 'catch up' with the living standards and productivity of the industrialized world.
		But there may also be an effect in the opposite direction, that is increased spread of PC and Internet use could raise productivity and education.
		There remains, nevertheless, a long way to go to achieve global digital equality.
	ucatlas.ucsc.edu /communication/digitaldivide.php (710 words)

	DDN Articles - Global Digital Divide: Targeting Rural and Economically-Challenged Communities
		Bridging the Global Digital Divide is a tall order even for giant development agents like the United Nations Development Program's Sustainable Development Networking Program and the World Bank's InfoDev Project.
		The Global Education Partnership (GEP) is approaching the digital divide challenge holistically, offering not just computer skills to the more than 800 youth who enter and leave its programs every year, but also entrepreneurship skills, work readiness skills, and skills for the global marketplace, all on a shoestring budget.
		It is not just bridging the digital divide in economically marginalized communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is a pioneer in bringing computer centers to neglected rural hamlets in four developing countries in three continents.
	www.digitaldivide.net /articles/view.php?ArticleID=246 (1723 words)

	QuickLinks - Digital divide
		The mission of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development will be to facilitate and promote integration of information and communication technology into development activities by providing a platform for an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder cross-sectoral policy dialogue on the role of information and communication technology in development.
		The report, Enabling a Digitally United Kingdom, says that nearly half of the adult population in the UK is what it describes as digitally disengaged.
		Nations ignoring the so-called "digital divide" between information technology "haves" and "have-nots" could be undermining their own ability to compete in the global market, a new report by International Data Corp contends, based on findings by IDC's Information Society Index (ISI), which ranks nations based on several criteria relating to their information-technology backbones.
	www.qlinks.net /quicklinks/divide.htm (2995 words)

	Amazon.com: Bridging the Global Digital Divide: Books: Jeffrey James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to many observers, the global digital divide - the extent to which information technology is benefiting developed as opposed to developing countries - has already established itself as the single most pervasive theme of the twenty-first century.
		Depending on whether or not this divide can be bridged will, to a large degree, determine whether developing countries are able to attain higher levels of productivity, prosperity and global integration.
		Digital Divide — See how Intel is bridging the digital divide in developing world.
	www.amazon.com /Bridging-Global-Digital-Divide-Jeffrey/dp/1843762064 (825 words)

	A New Business Frontier
		The powerful answer that emerged from the conference, shared by nearly all participants, was that the digital divide is both an urgent problem and a potentially significant opportunity.
		One of his key insights was that access to digital systems is not the same as ownership (the dominant model in industrial countries).
		The digital opportunity task force, launched at the G-8 economic summit in July 2000, intends to help close the global digital divide.
	www.businessweek.com /adsections/digital/frontier.htm (2273 words)

	CJTC — Digital Divide
		The digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups
		The causes and consequences of such disparities, as well as one potential solution to the problem, are the focus of Youth, Race, and the Digital Divide.
		The quantitative research on the causes and consequences of the digital divide relies upon sophisticated econometric analyses of large national datasets.
	cjtc.ucsc.edu /digitaldivide.html (722 words)

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		The World Economic Forum’s Digital Divide Task Force is proposing three FORUM initiatives to be piloted in Ghana.
		To bring ICT and other related technologies to the doorstep of the youth of today in order to bridge the digital divide; there is the need for a lot of investment by government and the international donor community.
		Forum Digital Divide Lead NGO: World Computer Exchange (www.WorldComputerExchange.org) WCE is dedicated to helping the world's poorest youth bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding.
	www.worldcomputerexchange.org /WEForum/Ghana_initiatives.doc (4515 words)

	SSRN-Telecommunications Regulation and the Global Digital Divide by Rob Nicholls
		The application of this model in least developed countries is widening the global digital divide by increasing the inequality of access to the information society in those countries compared with developed countries.
		The paper quantifies the scope and extent of the global digital divide by way of comparison of access to the internet in member states of the OECD and those states defined by the United Nations to be least developed countries (LDCs).
		Nicholls, Rob, "Telecommunications Regulation and the Global Digital Divide" (September 26, 2005).
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=888842 (393 words)

	WRI conference explores new businesses to transform global digital divide into dividends
		"Digital technologies are being used right now in very innovative ways that can create significant social and environmental benefits for the billions of people who do not yet have access to the Internet," said William D. Ruckelshaus, chairman of WRI.
		By using digital technologies, a company called Viatru, http://www.viatru.com, is linking artisans to global markets.
		The digital face of farming is precision agriculture, where advanced software, sensors and other technology will enable farmers to use less fertilizers and pesticides, and put them where they are needed.
	newsroom.wri.org /newsrelease_text.cfm?NewsReleaseID=4 (760 words)

	Digital Divide Issues \| FOSSFP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Digital Partnership will bring together the providers of these elements in a path-finding implementation strategy with integration of a global logistics chain and implementation at the community level.
		This initiative is intended to lend a global dimension to the multitude of efforts to bridge the global digital divide
		World Computer Exchange (WCE) is a global nonprofit organisation committed to helping the world's poorest youth bridge the global divides in information technology through recycling technology and leveraging resources for training.
	www.fossfp.org /digitaldivide (809 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Global digital divide 'narrowing'
		The "digital divide" between rich and poor nations is narrowing fast, according to a World Bank report.
		"The digital divide is rapidly closing," the World Bank report said.
		A spokesman for the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS), which is meeting this week in Geneva, told the BBC News website: "The digital divide is very much real and needs to be addressed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4296919.stm (400 words)

	Digital divide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The digital divide is the gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies and those without.
		4 Digital divide in the context of e-democracy
		[edit] Digital divide in the context of e-democracy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digital_divide (1177 words)

	Digital Divide.org - Home
		the Digital Divide emerged as a significant economic and political issue, a vision for how to tap market forces to close the Divide has finally emerged.
		It is extending digital technology successfully to the “next ten percent” of citizens and to the governments that serve them.
		The First Digital Revolution, ending in Silicon Valley’s dot-com bust, poured trillions of dollars into the global economy.
	www.digitaldivide.org (397 words)

	EDC Feature Articles: EDC Hosts Global Digital Divide Discussions Providing Input to G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force
		Concerned that the "Information Revolution" is leaving the developing world behind, leaders from the world's economic superpowers, the G8, committed resources to a global Digital Opportunity Task (DOT) Force, which is to prepare a report on ways the G8 can help close the digital divide.
		The Global Knowledge for Development Forum discussion, which focuses on using information and communications technologies for sustainable development, is an ongoing discussion for an international audience.
		It is sponsored by the Global Knowledge Partnership, an informal partnership of public and private organizations.
	main.edc.org /Newsroom/features/digopp.asp (256 words)

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