Crossing the Digital Divide: computer resources to aid minorities

The term “digital divide” has been used frequently over the past five years to express the idea that certain people groups have less access to computing resources than others. Some aspects of the problem have been well explored in many documents. These include the financial problems of computer access, the lack of telecommunications resources in remote areas and a lack of basic literacy which would lead to computer use. These issues affect hundreds of millions of people around the world. A lesser-known problem is the lack of program and script support for minority groups, especially where those groups use non-Roman scripts.