Bridging the Digital Divide in Third World Countries

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Bridging the Digital Divide in Third World
Countries

• By Amanda Belden

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BBC News.Digital Divide hits third world
health. 29 September, 2000. 23 July 2004.
http//news.bbc.co.uk

The developing world is not getting any benefit
from the health information available on the
internet. Women in third world world countries
want to know how to care for their child when
they are ill. Without a computer they do not know
how to keep themselves and their children healthy.
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When the web is not worldwide. 21 July 2001.
BBC News. 26 July 2004. http//newsbbc.co.uk

• To bridge the digital divide, heads of the
  state at the G8 summit are expected to announce
  aid for helping developing nations catch up on
  technology.

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IT Web. Zimbabwe Understanding the Digital
Divide. Africa News. 22 June 2004. Lexis Nexis.
Plattsburgh State Library. 20 July 2004.
http//lexis-nexis.com.

• The digital divide is not just countries without
  computers it is also when you have a computer but
  you do not know how to use it. This is what
  happens in third world countries that do have
  little access to computers. They cannot use them
  because they do not have the means of education
  to learn.

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IT Web. South Africa Tools to Measure the
Digital Divide. Africa News. 22 June 2004.
Lexis-Nexis. Plattsburgh State Library. 20 July
2004. http//web.lexis-nexis.com

• The Digital Bridges Initiative is a project
  that has been developed with the aim of providing
  tools to measure the gap in access to
  technologies that exists between developed and
  developing nations. It will also provide policy
  and technical expertise to close the gap.

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IT Web. South Africa Tools to Measure the
Digital Divide. Africa News. 22 June 2004.
Lexis-Nexis. Plattsburgh State Library. 20 July
2004. http//web.lexis-nexis.com

• Before DBI was founded their were limited
  professionals. DBI is known to be the answer to
  the gap. The institute targets middle and top
  management and strategic planners, managers and
  decision makers. Nigeria has plenty of hands on
  people and professionals to try and cure the gap.

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Servon, Lisa J. Bridging the Digital Divide
technology, community, and public policy. Malden,
MA Blackwell Pub, 2002.

• Bridging the digital divide shows unequal access
  to information and technology. It also lays out
  what could happen if the digital divide exists.
  Digital divide is only one symptom of poverty.
  Servons book shows that the programs aimed at
  closing the gap are creating pathways out of
  poverty for low income technology users in third
  world countries.

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Australian Banking Finance. India moving ahead
with STP online the Securities and Exchange
Board(SEBI) STP News. Expanded Academic ASAP.
SUNY Plattsburgh Library. 20 July 2004.
http//web5.infotrac.galegroup.com

• India is moving ahead with STP online the
  securities and Exchange Board of India now have
  straight through processing. It is known that
  India is the first country in the region to
  achieve STP in a short time. Financial
  Technologies says its solutions will, provide
  online connectivity to market participants, along
  with online status and message flow.

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Kripalani, Manjeet. Technology Wired Villages
A plan to bring the net to rural India. Business
Week. 14 October 2002. Expanded Academic ASAP.
Plattsburgh State Library. 20 July 2004.
http//web5.infotrac.galegroup.com

• The Dhar district of central Madhya Pradesh state
  is a microcosm of Indias poverty. Dhar is the
  center of the grass roots technology revolution
  that could spread around the world. Gyandoot, a
  govt backed program, has installed 39 computers
  in different locations in Dhar. It has connected
  a million people or more. Villagers can know for
  a few cents more obtain land records, drivers
  licenses, and even school exam results.

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Frimpong, Victor. UN adopts Third World wireless
internet initiative. 4 February 2004. IPTV
Broadcasting over Broadband. 26 July 2004.
http//www.dmeurope.com.

• The United Nations ICT Task Force hopes to
  encourage the adoption of a wireless internet in
  third world countries. They are going to try this
  by using an unlicensed radio spectrum that can
  offer affordable internet services.

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Pack, Thomas and Hoffman, Donna. Bridging the
Digital Divide The Impact of Race on Computer
Access and Internet Use. 2 February 1998.
Vanderbilt University. 26 July 2004.
http//elab.vanderbilt.edu.

• In third world countries most of the population
  consists of minorities. Whites are more likely to
  own a home computer than a minority would. The
  general point is that higher education levels
  correspond to higher possibilities to own a
  computer. If the minorities are not as educated
  than whites due to a lack of computers therefore
  they most likely will not own a computer.
• This is
  a computer that the
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  Japanese are trying to get
  into Third World Countries.

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Woolnough, Roisin. Bridging the Digital
Divide.13 September 2001. IT Management
Politics and Law. 26 July 2004.
http//www.computerweekly.com

• The equalities of IT today are not balanced. They
  make rich countries richer and poor countries
  poorer. Third world countries are the poorer
  countries who do not have the privilege to access
  the internet. IT is not assisting in trying to
  make it so they can have access. Therefore IT is
  not doing its job.

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Jones, Steve. Encyclopedia of New Media an
Essential Reference to Communication and
Technology. Thousand Oaks California Sage
Publications. 2003.

• The encyclopedia states that minorities would be
  more inclined to go online when they will be able
  to find web sites that interest them. Number of
  ethnically focused sites on the internet grow
  constantly both domestically and internationally.
  The goal is to make sites bilingual or
  multilingual to help bridge digital divide in
  third world countries.