Demystifying the digital divide.
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policy leaders and social scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a societal split between those with and those without access to computers and the Internet. The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration popularized a term for this situation in the mid-1990s: the “digital divide.” The phrase soon became used in an international context as well, to describe the status of information technology from country to country. Demystifying the Digital Divide
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Scientific American
دوره 289 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003