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Digital divide: Connectivity and the different dimensions of literacy
2008-06-02 14:27:00 During last days I have been going trough different ICT4D papers, and then again I have been astonished to see that their focus was mainly limited to the issue of access although access to a computer or Internet is just a first step and does not mean you can fully engage in the web. Some ...
By: crisscrossed
Digital divide a threat to Indonesia's unity: president
2008-05-10 02:32:00 The yawning divide between the haves and the have-nots of the digital revolution is a "threat to national unity" and even world security, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday.Yudhoyono told an audience including Microsoft chairman Bill Gates that information technology posed "formidable" challenges as well as great opportunities for developing countries like Indonesia."There is a real danger that the world's poor will be virtually excluded from the emerging knowledge-based global economy, with dire consequences to global peace and security," he said."In Indonesia... we can ill afford a digital divide across and within communities. There is a threat to national unity that we must effectively manage."Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Banda larga & digital divide
2008-04-25 14:16:00 Partendo da questo pezzo, che ha il merito di affrontare uno dei problemi che in certi ambienti, non ho capito mai perché, sembrano essere “poco interessanti”: Digital Divide: l’handicap del terzo millennio, ma che secondo me non riesce a centrarlo, sono arrivata però qua (dicembre 2006 ): alla creazione dell’attesa “cabina di regia”, cioè del ...
By: DestraLab
Miami tries to bridge its digital divide
2008-04-06 01:20:00 Miami tries to bridge its digital divideThe city is proof that one doesn't need to leave the U.S. to find the same lack of economic opportunity and technology access that characterizes many emerging markets. It's also proof that with enough in...
Miami tries to bridge its digital divide
2008-04-06 00:20:00 Miami tries to bridge its digital divideThe city is proof that one doesn't need to leave the United States to find the same lack of economic opportunity and technology access that characterizes many emerging markets. It's also proof that with ...
Digital Divide: Youngsters Use Yahoo!; Google: Rich People?s Choice
2008-02-21 00:00:00 It's interesting to find out that social statistics can be tied into search engine usage. A Hitwise study shows that Yahoo! draws the younger audience while Google is preferred by affluent Internet users. Young people don't have money until they grow up and have jobs. And that's when they might start ...
By: SEO Hong Kong
Bridging The Digital Divide
2008-02-07 17:40:00 As more affordable technologies like the XO Laptop, the Eee PC, and others that make communication and education available to developing nations become more prolific, the divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing - but the developing world is still far behind. The United Nations Conference Trade and Development said that 58 percent of worldwide ...
Rich-poor "digital divide" still broad, says UNCTAD
2008-02-07 12:04:00 LONDON (Reuters) - The digital divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become more available, but the developing world still lags far behind, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said mobile phone subscribers have almost tripled in developing countries over the last five years, and now make up some 58 percent of mobile subscribers worldwide. "In Africa, where the increase in terms of the number of mobile phone subscribers and penetration has been greatest, this technology can improve the economic life of the population as a whole," it said. The report said mobile phones were the main communication tool for small businesses in developing countries, reducing costs and increasing the speed of transactions. "Mobile telephony provides market information for, and improves the earnings of, various communities, such as the fishermen of Kerala, the farmers of...
By: B4U India
The Digital Divide…
2008-01-13 20:45:00 No Dear Reader this is not a sop article on the travails of some community still using dialup. Its the ditigal divide going from analog to digital on the airwaves of TV land. – For the next year, you will hear repeated public service messages about analog television service being elminated on February 17, 2009. It will be replaced by digital TV service (DTV), and all TV stations will only broadcast in digital format. The problem: what if you only have an old-fashioned TV? Will it go black a year from now? Easy answer: it might if you get your signal using rabbit ears or an old-fashioned antenna. The solution: get a digital converter box that will take the new digital signals and convert them back to analog. To help with the expense of buying these boxes, Uncle Sam has set up a coupon program to offer each household up to two $40 coupons toward the purchase of digital TV converter boxes. The whole situation is so screwed up that it could be safely said that the adoption o...
By: Third Pipe
Bridging the Digital Divide in Kingston - e-voice.org.uk
2007-11-02 10:46:00 Once in a while, I come across an organisation that I just want to help promote/publicise. Well, this morning, I learnt about e-voice.org.uk To quote from Guarav Patel, who told me about it (on a Ubuntu list.) (Apologies to those who are reading this blog entry ON the Ubuntu Planet syndication site, and already know all about ...
Microsoft bridging the Digital Divide
2007-04-20 12:49:00 Microsoft began with a dream of a PC on everydesk and in every home. Thirty years ago this seemed impossible. Today it has reached more than one billion people. Now it aims to reach next 5 billion people under the Microsoft Unlimited Potential program. As reported by News.com, in Beijing Bill Gates unveiled a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows. Microsoft will offer the $3 Student Innovation Suite to governments that agree to directly purchase PCs for students to use in their schoolwork and at home. The collection of software, which starts shipping in the second half of this year includes Windows Xp Started Edition, Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live Mail Desktop and several educational products. The $3 price includes the software license. In order to be eligible, governments must pick up at least half of the tab for the PC, though the software can also be used on refurbished computers, which can cost as ...
Anti Digital Divide ottiene che il governo discuta di una pronta eliminazio
2007-03-29 02:30:00 Anti Digital Divide esprime soddisfazione per l'ordine del giorno presentato dal presidente della Commissione cultura della Camera, Pietro Folena, accolto dal Governo, in merito alle adsl su cavo solo dati. L'ordine impone di varare un provvedimento che porti all'azzeramento o alla riduzione del canone di 10 euro(+ IVA) che grava sulle offerte degli operatori che vendono le adsl naked e, di conseguenza, sui portafogli dei consumatori che le sottoscrivono. Questo è ciò che chiede ADD nella petizione lanciata alcune settimane fa, per l'abolizione del canone Telecom e del canone addizionale sulle linee solo dati.
The Digital Dividend: How does that work then?
2006-10-20 10:21:03 As anyone who has bought a new television in the UK in the past year or so will know, it is the Government's intention to close down all analogue TV transmitters by the end of the year 2012. It's main reason for doing this is to release some of the channels used for broadcasting so that they can be used for 'new users' (presumably ones that they see as being more lucrative!)The plan is for a rolling conversion of all television transmitters in the country to change from analogue to digital. In doing this, of the four existing analogue frequencies used to carry BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 and Channel 4, only three of these will continue to be used - one will be freed for the aforementioned mysterious new users. The three frequencies still in use will carry three digital mulitplexes ensuring national provision of all BBC, ITV, Channel 4 services including CBBC, BBC News 24, ITV2, ITV3, E4 and so on, so there's no need to worry about people losing their favourite progra...
By: Wireless Waffle
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