Documentos:
The World Bank. 2005. "Financing Information and Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World: Public and Private Roles".
UNCTAD "The Digital Divide: ICT Development Indices 2004".
Artículos:
Reuters. 24 de febrero de 2005. "'Digital Divide' Narrowing Fast, World Bank Says".
The "digital divide" between rich and poor nations is narrowing fast, the World Bank said on Thursday, calling into question a costly United Nations campaign to bring hi-tech telecommunications to the developing world. As some 1,700 international experts gathered in Geneva to prepare for the U.N.'s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the World Bank said in a report that telecommunications services to poor countries were growing at an explosive rate... Seguir leyendo
Worldsummit2003.org. 6 de marzo de 2005. "World Bank Says Digital Divide is Narrowing Rapidly.
Recommends Funding for Public Sector Reform Instead".
A draft report released by the World Bank maintains that mobile telephony is rapidly shrinking the digital divide and that the main role of governments is to clear a path for private investment. The report basically calls into question the point of having a UN world conference on bridging the digital divide... Seguir leyendo
BBC. 25 de febrero de 2005. "Global digital divide 'narrowing'".
The World Bank questioned a United Nation's campaign to increase usage and access to technology in poorer nations. "People in the developing world are getting more access at an incredible rate - far faster than... in the past," said the report. But a spokesman for the UN's World Summit on the Information Society said the digital divide remained very real... Seguir leyendo
. 25 de febrero de 2005. "Digital divide significant, but shrinking – UN study".
The digital divide between nations is significant - at around twice the average levels of income inequality. There are signs, however, that it is gradually narrowing, according to a new United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report on The Digital Divide: ICT Development Indices 2004... Seguir leyendo
. 25 de febrero de 2005. "¿Hacia el fin de la brecha digital?".
El Banco Mundial acaba de realizar un informe del que se desprende que los servicios de telecomunicaciones en los países más desfavorecidos están creciendo a un ritmo "explosivo", lo que propicia que la división digital entre el norte más desarrollado y el sur pobre se esté reduciendo con bastante rapidez... Seguir leyendo
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