Impact of Net on Economies of Poor Countries

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...

How can we help to narrow the digital divide?

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:...

India’s Cheap New Handheld ‘Simputer’

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...

Taking the Net to South Africa’s Poor

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...

Archbishop Foley on the Digital Divide

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...

3 Principles That Give Internet a Human Dimension

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...