Digital divide

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• High-speed Internet gap between rich and poor widening, UN official warns

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 436
  [news release] While the “digital divide” between rich and poor countries may be shrinking overall, the gap is widening between the developed and developing worlds in the availability of broadband or high-speed Internet, a crucial tool for achieving economic and social goals, a top United Nations official said ...
  14 hours ago

• How to Profit off the Poor… and Keep Your Soul

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 164
  DELHI, INDIA–“I’ll take you! I live there!” a small boy with a blue shirt and a perfect toothy grin said as he ran ahead of me. His quiet friend in yellow jogged beside him smiling shyly, his jet-black Elvis curl bobbing on his forehead. The boy in blue stopped a few yards in front of me turned around, beaming ...
  23 hours ago

• Living on the last mile

  
  edu-it — Authority: 103
  The Last Mile I’m writing this at the Latham Library /, no, I cannot tell a lie, I’m writing this at home to post later at the library. Our phone line has been getting noisy lately and yesterday it finally became unusable. We have dial-up. Most of the time we connect at a fairly good clip for dial-up, ...
  2 days ago

• Half of Africas improved growth from ICT

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
  A recent report indicates that Market liberalisation has encouraged massive private investment in Africas cellular networks, according to a report released recently by the World Bank. The result was a major revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), which helped boost economic growth to an annual ...
  2 days ago

• Think People

  
  Digital Beat — Authority: 92
  People are the "killer app." From e-mail, to digital pictures, to todays social media, connecting people to people has always been a motivating force for getting people on and keeping them on the Internet. And the value of the network grows and grows with each additional person on it.
  3 days ago

• Within Reach: Current Readings

  
  Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog — Authority: 406
  Some old, something new; something borrowed, something blue. Heres whats on/open/brewing on my desk. Lenses Bruno Latour    Reassembling the Social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory    Oxford University Press    2005    A how-to trace associations through accounts of activity: defining ...
  3 days ago

• Maslow meets Rogers : A web that connects us all

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 516
  Theres some remarkable synchonicity today as we arrive at the launch for the Charter for Compassion. The concept of self-actualisation defined by Maslow and later work by Carl R Rogers in achieving in through person-centered counselling bore influence on a 1996 white paper which proposed a new paradigm for economics ...
  4 days ago

• Digital Divide Anglesey Style

  
  trefor.net — Authority: 128
  Last night I met someone at the Engineering Dinner at Bangor University who put a different slant on the Digital Divide. Stephen Yates lives on a small-holding just outside Holyhead on the Anglesey coast. Although only a three mile walk from his nearest pub in Holyhead he can’t get broadband – the copper winds ...
  4 days ago

• Glasgow North East candidates campaigning online

  
  doctorvee — Authority: 498
  Something I have noticed about the Glasgow North East by-election is amount of innovative online coverage there has been from the media. All Media Scotland has reported on interesting methods of covering the election which have been adopted by three Scottish newspapers. The Scotsman has invited the candidates from ...
  5 days ago

• Paraguay: OportuNet - un programa para reducir la brecha digital

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
  Comenzó la tercera fase de OportuNet, proyecto ejecutado por la Fundación Paraguaya con fondos de USAID. El programa busca dar acceso a Internet a varios puntos rurales, así como capacitaciones y entrenamiento en liderazgo. OportuNet busca disminuir la brecha digital y facilitar el acceso al mundo especialmente a ...
  5 days ago

• What About the Mobile Users?

  
  Mike Rouse's Diary — Authority: 123
  The use of mobile devices for accessing the internet has increased, certainly more in recent years thanks to developments such as Apple’s iPhone, lower data costs and growth of social media. Even before recent development the use of mobile devices to access the internet increased threefold during 2006 to 16% of ...
  6 days ago

• Chile: Ministerio de Agricultura de destaca avances en la incorporación de TICs al sector agrícola

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
  Los avances realizados en los últimos tres años por el Ministerio de Agricultura, para incorporar las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TICs) en el sector agrícola, fueron analizados en un seminario internacional organizado por la Fundación para la Innovación Agraria (FIA). Rodrigo Vega, Director ...
  1 week ago

• Internet access-a human right?

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 144
  Is there a fundemental right to being online? The Times asked a number of people that question and here are some of the replies Being cut off from your broadband isn’t the same as being whisked to Guantánamo; I see it more as a consumer right and a citizen’s right. Nobody says you have to shop online at ...
  1 week ago

• La inversión pública logra disminuir la brecha digital rural

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
  Un artículo en Cibersur señana que la brecha digital en el ámbito rural español ha disminuido considerablemente en los últimos años: “se ha producido un incremento de la banda ancha rural del 272%, estando ocho de las Comunidades Autónomas españolas por encima de la media nacional”. Así lo afirma la ...
  1 week ago

• Google wave first thoughts – Grassroots Digitalbritain and the digitally excluded

  
  trefor.net — Authority: 128
  Had a day or two to play with the wave.  Some of my Facebook friends have already commented that it is no good without others to communicate with.  At this time I have two friends in my wave contacts list :Luc from Google who invited me and Cyberdoyle. This fits into the category of sad git with no friends.  ...
  1 week ago

• Fresh and familiar takes on journalistic change

  
  Ink-Drained Kvetch — Authority: 107
  Because of my ongoing Web site-building project, I haven’t been able to post here as often or substantively as I would like. But below are some recent links to journalism and media topics that have been on my mind as I work toward a launch date that’s just around the corner. (Some shorter, quicker notes I’ve ...
  1 week ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
  Con 1764 "aulas digitales" ubicadas en poco más de mil jardines infantiles terminará este mes el proyecto "Jardín Digital", que busca disminuir la brecha digital y acercar las nuevas tecnologías a los menores desde sus primeros años. Las "aulas digitales" consisten en un computador que es usado 10 minutos al ...
  1 week ago

• Latin alphabet no longer rules the Internet

  
  FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family — Authority: 133
  “We have just made the Internet much more accessible to millions of people in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia.”The body in charge of assigning the world’s... This is a summary only. Click on the Title to read the entire article.
  2 weeks ago

• Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Italy is in the process of switching to digital TV , and the implementation is pretty much a disaster, as far as I can tell from the reactions in the region where I live (Piedmont). Many of the problems are technological, but not all. A volunteer force of ‘angels’ is doing what it can: Here is quick translation ...
  2 weeks ago

• One Computer per child

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 159
  If we could digitize paper, music and video and store them in files on a computer and then bring it alive when needed, why not a digitize a whole computer into a file? These days, computers are so fast that it is possible to feed them a description of an ideal childs computer and have it bring it alive on the screen ...
  2 weeks ago

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