Crossing the Digital Divide: Strategies and Implications
(2001) Crossing the Digital Divide: Strategies and Implications. In Proceedings Eighth AUC Research Conference 8, Cairo (Egypt).
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Abstract
The global digital divide is a phenomenon which separates East from West. Responding to change is extremely important for the survival of humankind. This applies to the effort to close the divide. It will widen if the appropriate strategies and applications are not implemented in a timely way. Then the group on the less privileged side of the divide will find it harder and harder to cross to the other side. We need to see strategies put into action which will allow a post-digital literacy, one that both Freire and Mitra would approve of, to take place using the current tools of technology. We also need to make sure that the divide between the haves and the have-nots does not become one of knows and know-nots.
| Keywords: | Digital divide ; information access ; equal access to information |
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| Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information. > BA. Use and impact of information. G. Industry, profession and education. > GC. Computer and telecommunication industry. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. |
| ID Code: | 5046 |
| Deposited By: | Speirs Plettner, Martha |
| Deposited On: | 05 December 2005 |
| All fields: | Show all fields |
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