The Gaps Between The Digital Divides
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چکیده
“The ‘digital divide’ is real. It is actually several gaps in one: a technological divide in infrastructure, with 70 percent of the world’s Internet users living in the 24 richest countries, which contain just 16 percent of the world’s people; a content divide, with nearly 70 percent of the world’s Websites in English /../ and a gender divide, with women and girls in many countries, rich and poor alike, enjoying less access to information technology than men and boys.” Kofi Annan (2003)[6:20]
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