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Digital Divide Still Scars UK Internet Sector
News Internet access begins at home only if you're well paid, according to new research that show that years of government and industry initiatives have yet to close Britain's digital divide. Research published on Tuesday by the Greater London Authority...
[November 18, 2003, 16:50]
WiMAX: An Efficient Tool To Bridge The Digital Divide
White Papers This paper is intended at first to explain the various aspects of what one uses to designate as the « Digital Divide » especially between and within countries. It stresses the importance of this new challenge, "Information Society for all", as...
[November 28, 2005, 23:00]
News Burst: Government Pledges £30m To Fighting Digital Divide
News The government moves to combat the growing broadband crisis Tuesday, launching a report on the future of high-speed broadband Internet services and offering an extra £30m to deal with the urban/rural digital divide.
[February 13, 2001, 14:01]
Wireless Technologies And E-Learning: Bridging The Digital Divide
White Papers This limitation has created a "Digital divide" - a gap between those able to benefit from digital technology and those who cannot. To reach new audiences and extend the benefits of digital technology to previously unreachable populations, Intel...
[February 23, 2007, 23:00]
E-envoy Calls For Help Bridging Digital Divide
News The government, which is keen to see universal Net access available in the UK, has several projects of its own to help bridge the digital divide. The socio-economic divide [when it comes to Internet access] is something we're worried about and...
[January 18, 2001, 9:26]
A Year Ago: Government To Tackle 'digital Divide'
News The government Monday published a report that highlights a 'digital divide' in technology skills among UK socio-economic groups These centres will help bridge the digital divide," stated Wills, "While new technology can offer great opportunities...
[January 30, 2001, 6:01]
Kids Key To Closing The Digital Divide
News BT is attempting to use the nation's youth to increase Internet use and close the digital divide. The digital divide is still a major problem for the UK, according to research published earlier this month that found Internet access often only...
[November 26, 2003, 17:05]
Governments 'play Key Role' In Reducing Digital Divide
News The digital divide is alive and well around the world, according to a new international survey. The ITU survey provides further grist for the debate over the so-called digital divide, or the gap between people who have access to advanced...
[November 21, 2003, 9:50]
New Handheld Aims To Bridge Digital Divide
News Their vision is to create not only a computer, but also an "evolving platform for social change" throughout the world by bridging the digital divide. A non-profit group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device aimed...
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Government Web Site To Bridge Digital Divide
News The UK Government has launched a national jobs and learning Web site to help bridge the "digital divide" between professionals who are IT literate, and the unemployed who have never accessed the Internet before.
[March 8, 2001, 15:58]
Government Digital Divide Strategy In Disarray
News The government's plan to combat the digital divide by giving away 100,000 recycled PCs to the poorest families in Britain has gone awry as it admitted today that it has so far distributed just 6,000 since October.
[May 4, 2001, 13:47]
Bridging The Digital Divide: An Opportunity For Growth For The 21st Century
White Papers Bridging the digital divide is a challenge on which much has been written and to which many events have been devoted, including the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organized by the United Nations in December 2003, a second phase of...
[October 12, 2004, 0:00]
Wireless Could Be Bridge To Digital Divide
News The bridge across the global digital divide is likely to be a wireless one. Newton was among the many scholars, public officials and business leaders participating in the "Bridging the Divide" conference organised by UC Berkeley's Management of...
[April 5, 2004, 13:15]
Free Set-top Boxes For All To End Digital Divide
News A UK company claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television channels and the Internet. Freebox believes its freebie technology will help end the...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
EC To Investigate Digital Divide
News The European Commission is to undertake a study into the emerging digital divide, according to an official from the Council of Europe. She believes online forums like this are a vital part of e-democracy and could go some way to solving the digital...
[March 22, 2001, 14:12]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
News Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the mainstream development of open source software, leading to a digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Europe May Regulate The Digital Divide
News DT and industry experts believe this is unworkable, but it could sit well with the government's determination to wire the UK and prevent the development of a digital divide. Universal service obligations could be extended to the Internet according...
[May 10, 2000, 14:11]
Chancellor Tackles The Digital Divide
News Chancellor Gordon Brown announced Wednesday a multi-million pound investment aimed at bridging the UK's digital divide and challenged industry to ensure affordable access to make the schemes work. The principle behind it -- that no-one should be...
[October 11, 2000, 9:47]
Fiorina Urges Companies To Combat The Digital Divide
News Jackson Sr.s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to bring business leaders together to tackle the digital divide -- the gulf between those who use the Internet and those who don't. She said HP's digital divide initiatives have already helped to wire communities...
[May 1, 2003, 8:38]
A Blueprint: From Digital Divide To Digital Provide
White Papers This paper provides a "blueprint" on how to establish a community-based program to address an issue of great and growing concern: The "digital divide" - the gap between those people who do and do not have access to a personal computer or the...
[August 22, 2005, 0:00]
