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10.08.2004 A report at the University of Pennsylvania has suggested that e-learning in the United States suffered from poor market research and wrong assumptions of investors, who pushed too many untested products that learners werenÂ’t prepared for.

07.08.2004 Macedonia has one of Europe's lowest rates of Internet use, followed only by Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Surveys have found that only 3 per cent of Macedonians are online, and those who are only use the web for an average of nine hours per month. In Western European countries, by contrast, 85 per cent of the population is logged on for as many as 24 hours a day.

06.08.2004 Only three of the 13 computer systems for the proper functioning of the Internet are located outside the US, and none is in Africa. As preparations go on for the second World Summit on the Information Society in November 2005, more and more African nations are demanding a say in how the Internet should be run.

02.08.2004 Community Technology Centers, an initiative started in a New York neighbourhood in 1983 to provide learning opportunities through computers, has grown into a network that is helping bridge the digital divide.