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Keyword: digital divide


Phone Power (2/26/2005)

Mobile phones that require less fixed investment and maintenance can extend telecommunications to areas that copper wires might have taken decades to reach.

Keywords: appropriate technology, Bangladesh, cellular phones, developing countries, digital divide, fishermen, Grameen Bank, India, market information, mobile phones, phone lady, R&D

Time Rich or Time Poor? (11/9/2001)

Proliferation of e-government services may exacerbate the digital divide between technology haves and have-nots.

Keywords: cash poor, cash rich, digital divide, e-government, opportunity cost, productivity, time poor, time rich