by Beth | Nov 1, 2002 | Social
On behalf of OneWorld and the Benton Foundation’s Digital Divide Network, we’d like to welcome you to Digital Opportunity Channel (DOC). This new online community launched the week of World Telecommunications Day — 17 May 2002 — whose theme...
by Beth | Oct 7, 2002 | Social
The question in BBC’s latest Talking Point is: “How can we help to narrow the digital divide?” Those who want to read the various answers given and/or would like to give their own answer to the question can go to:...
by Beth | Jul 9, 2002 | Social
India’s new “Simputer” — a handheld computer whose name was chosen to suggest that it is simple, inexpensive, and multilingual — will cost between 10,500 to 23,000 rupees ($214-469), in a country where the average per capita income is...
by Beth | Jul 1, 2002 | Social
Slow but optimistic growth of internet among South Africa’s poorInternet cafes provide many people in developing nations with their first experience of Web and e-mail. In South Africa, Mkululi Bolo walked away from a journalism career to set up an Internet café...
by Beth | Jun 22, 2002 | Social
Vatican Aide´s U.N. Address on Information TechnologiesNEW YORK, JUNE 19, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Here is the text of Archbishop John P. Foley’s address to the U.N. General Assembly this week on information technologies for development. * * * ADDRESS OF ARCHBISHOP...
by Beth | Jun 1, 2002 | Social
VATICAN CITY, MAY 31, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications suggested three basic principles to give Internet a human dimension. Archbishop John P. Foley listed the principles as truth, respect for the dignity of the...
