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Sunday, December 02, 2001
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_10/deuze/index.html Reaching Across the Divide: The Challenges of Using the Internet to Bridge Disparities in Access to Information Andie Miller Over the past few years, the Internet has rapidly become part of the daily lives of most people in the first world. This trend in easy access to unlimited information resources for first world users mirrors the growing 'central-peripheral divide' in the developing world: the concentration of wealth in the major urban centres and the increasing marginalisation of people in the peri-urban and rural areas. The result of both trends is that the majority of the world's population, particularly on the African continent, has limited access to most information resources....
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