Title: Bridging the Digital Divide in Third World Countries
1Bridging the Digital Divide in Third World
Countries
2BBC 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.
3When 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.
4IT 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.
5IT 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.
6IT 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
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- 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.
7Servon, 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.
8Australian 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.
9Kripalani, 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.
10Frimpong, 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.
11Pack, 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 -
Japanese are trying to get
into Third World Countries.
12Woolnough, 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.
13Jones, 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.