Re: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

2005-03-04 Thread Jacqueline Morris
> > >THerefore all these talks about digital divide are for people who HAS > >digital avilable to them because they do not face many of the 'divides' > >mentioned above ... so how can we understand what the needs of these people? > >Furthermore, even if we build a teleceter for them and they ca

Re: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

2005-03-04 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
I never seems to be able to post to DDN ... I am going to give it one more try ... reading the analysis by Taran and others, I have to agree there are TOO MANY DIVIDES and not just digital. Read the email from Declan, one can just understand why this world has so many divides. When World Ba

RE: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

2005-03-04 Thread K Wong \(UVic\)
Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada My Blog on Aboriginal People and Technology http://nativetech.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Sherwood Sent: March 1, 2005 5:48 AM To: Digital Divide Subject: [DDN] [Fwd: [Po

Re: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

2005-03-03 Thread John Hibbs
Declan McCullagh writes In other words, it's a bit silly to talk about the "digital divide" without also addressing the underlying problems of broken court systems, military rule, confiscatory government policies, and so on that these nations have yet to address. Solving those problems would g

Re: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

2005-03-03 Thread Taran Rampersad
Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote: >I never seems to be able to post to DDN ... I am going to give it one more try >... > >reading the analysis by Taran and others, I have to agree there are TOO MANY >DIVIDES and not just digital. > >Read the email from Declan, one can just understand why this world h

[DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

2005-03-01 Thread Chuck Sherwood
To All: This is the kind of "knownothing" analysis that is being generated by the World Bank report. Declan's listserv is read by many thought leaders and his analysis will contribute to the general misunderstanding and misinformation about the Digital Divide. Your comments should be address