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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Thursday, February 24

Digital Divide: Not quite as advertised?

by DavidAkin on Thu 24 Feb 2005 10:20 PM EST

Reuters reporter Thomas Atkins has an interesting piece which has the World Bank suggesting that the digital divide described by groups associated with the United Nations is not nearly so wide as once thought.
"People in the developing world are getting more access at an incredible rate -- far faster ... more »

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