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Bridging the Digital Divide
By Katherine Savanh ksavanh_at_ucsd.edu Advisor
Professor Cristin McVey cmcvey_at_dss.ucsd.edu
Photo Courtesy of www.thecommonwealth.org/Templat
es/CYPInternal.asp?NodeID38453,
www.dw-world.de/dw/image/detail/1,1599,1535495_1,0
0.html, www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/EPS.html,
http//borgenproject.org/Pictures.html,
www.wsis-cs.org/africa/whatis.shtml,
www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2120/stories/200410080014
05500.htm

• Problems in Africa
• Poverty
• Inadequacy in electron grid
• Transport network inadequacy
• Telephone system are outdated
• State own monopolies
• Use open source software
• Bandwidth cost 10 times more than the US

EDUCATION
INTERNET CAFE

• Information and Technology Benefits
• Education
• Economics growth
• E-banking
• Flow of information
• Global campaigns

President of Senegal, Abdoulay Wade proposed the
DSFund in Dec 2003 at the first WSIS conference

• Foreign companies and international countries
  help aid Africa
• USAID
• SITA
• United Nations Development Program
• Africa Telecommunication Union
• Carnegie Corporation
• Ford Foundation
• McArthur Foundation
• Cisco
• WSIS-Digital Solidarity Fund
• How the fund will be used
• 60 for least-developed countries
• 30 for other developing countries
• 10 for economies in transition
• Financial Resources Focus