Digital Divide Network

20.03.2002 Kade Twist examines the U.S government's latest report on the digital divide, and criticises its failure to address the severe lack of Internet access and ICT literacy among native American Indians.

12.03.2002 The concept of a digital divide is much more complex than a simple differentiation between those who are connected and those who are not. In addition to the usually understood division of users and non-users (the first divide), non-users are not a homogenous group. They clearly fit into two broad groups (the second divide). Together, the user and the segmented non-user groups form a "dual digital divide."

12.03.2002 The concept of a digital divide is much more complex than a simple differentiation between those who are connected and those who are not. In addition to the usually understood division of users and non-users (the first divide), non-users are not a homogenous group. They clearly fit into two broad groups (the second divide). Together, the user and the segmented non-user groups form a "dual digital divide."

06.03.2002 After 10 years of US technology export restrictions, an Indian state-run agency is laying plans to build a nationwide grid of supercomputers that will aid in environmental modelling, analyzing satellite images, synthesizing capital market data and more.

01.03.2002 Nearly three-fourths of women have not yet pressed the "Power" button to get them into the new economy even as the Internet has emerged as the "IN" place to conduct business and to to get competitive information. This piece by Rosemary Brisco analyses why.