Bonnie -- I'm confused as to your reference to the Rising Above the
Gathering Storm report. The NY Times article was certainly a
disappointment - it was clear they haven't done their research.
But I've not seen anything in the Rising Above report that implied
that we had a playing field -- in
You may want to look at the general business case for serving the
poor as customers and entrepreneurs - as developed by CK
Prahalad. It is as true in the specific case of digital technology
as it is in the general case.
Also, think of it this way: Metcalfe's law states that the value of a
If you haven't found it, the report is available at
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf
At 09:06 AM 11/4/2005, you wrote:
From the United Nations... I haven't found the
actual report yet, though. The link in the
press release leads to another press release,
and the link
Many of you may already know about this, but today's Financial Times
has the following story: Call to restrict 'stifling' patents
(http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3e3b14aa-3c1e-11da-94fb-0e2511c8.html)
An international group of academics, scientists and artists has
called for strict limits on
I agree with John that the Google's and Yahoo's digitization of books
is not a problem if the purpose is to provide access to specific
portions only - the creation of the intellectual showroom (look what
happened when the Border brothers encouraged people in their Ann
Arbor bookstore to
from http://www.freepress.net/news/11806
Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say
From
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNewsstoryID=2005-10-12T231346Z_01_DIT283610_RTRUKOC_0_US-MINERALS-Reuters,
October 13, 2005
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) Hundreds of Peruvian
Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on
the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age
Have-Nots -
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc024.htm
It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other
things. It also stresses the
Andy -- thanks for posting this. Sometimes we forget how powerful the
old technologies (i.e. telephones) can be. I think the thrust of this
report is important -- which electronic channels work best I would even
drop the word electronic. Our goal is access to government information,
In case you haven't seen it yet, the cover of the latest issue of the
Economist in on the digital divide:
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=3742817
Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective
response to the digital divide -- not PCs!
Steve -- I wouldn't characterize this as a dark horse It is one of the
central facets of bridging the divide -- for if, as you put it, the
knowledge and skill not readily available in the community then the
effort to expand the digital economy (a phrase I like better than bridging
the digital
Let me take this discussion in a slightly different direction. The
conversation on narrowcasting and student apathy to information other
opinions has been very interesting (and I may try to fit it into my own
blog on the Intangible Economy - www.intangibleeconomy.org)
But, to what extent is
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb
so much for the vaulted demand-driven strategy for broadband deployment --
unless Congress and the Bush Administration believe that games and porno
will be enough to drive demand.
At 04:18 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote:
The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) did not
Yoni,
David has posted some very good references. But let us keep in mind that a
standard measure of the digital divide requires a standard definition of
what is the digital divide. And I will not repeat the numerous discussions
and debates on that subject that have been held on this forum.
But the point of the article is not who wins or loses from the existence of
the digital divide, but who wins from having the issue raised to a high
political level (as opposed to the health care divide or the income
divide). As Taran implied, the article does not overtly state who the
losers
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