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DIGITALDIVIDE

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WHAT IS DIGITAL

DIVIDE?The term digital divide refers to the gap betweenthose people with effective access to digital and

information technology and those without access to it.

It includes the imbalances in physical access totechnology as well as the imbalances in resources and

skills needed to effectively participate as a digitalcitizen.

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TYPES OF DIGITAL

DIVIDEThe first divide is that which exists within every nation,industrialized or developing , between those who are rich,educated, and powerful, and those who are not.

A second digital divide, less often noted, is linguistic andcultural. In many nations this divide separates those whospeak English or another language from those who do not.

The third digital divide follows inevitably from the first two-- it is the growing digital gap between the rich and thepoor nations.

OTHER WAY OF CLASSIFYING IS:

Technology is available but not affordable

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Another key dimension of the digital divide is theglobal digital divide, reflecting existing economicdivisions in the world.

This global digital divide widens the gap ineconomic divisions around the world.

Countries with a wide availability of internet accesscan advance the economics of that country on alocal and global scale.

GLOBAL SCENARIO

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India and China for the past decade. India using technology. Indian context of bridging the digital divide.

Connecting India

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BRIDGING THE DIVIDEThe Village Knowledge Centre project -BySwaminathan Foundation

Connects 10 villages near Pondicherry Uses Solar powered network power station

ICTSHG

1000 village knowledge centres

The Simputer project Simple and Natural User Interfaces Built-In Smart Card feature

Taarahat Highly picturised Interface Services like Employment, Mandi-market, e-mail etc.

e-Choupal Services reach out to half-a-million farmers, in some 4,500 villages through 770

kiosks across 4 states Sanchalaks access information and disseminate it.

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Gram IT

APs Rural BPOs managed by Satyam. Capacity-50 seater. Initiative to be extended to 140 adopted villages

e-bhoomi E-governance project of Karnataka govt. 20 mio land records of 7 mio land owners in 176 taluks of Karnataka

have been computerised.

e-seva 6000 kiosks in rural areas of andhra pradesh. Telemedicine and Tele-agriculture: IT in seeding, irrigation, data

collection, soil property analysis.

Gyandoot Entire network of 31 Kiosks covers 311 panchayats, over 600 villages,

nearly 50% of the entire district. Local youth act as entrepreneurs. User fees charged

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Portal provides business educationeBay, a web-auction enterprise, is trying to makebusiness education widely accessible to the would-be

entrepreneurs.The Indian state government of Chattisgarh hasdeveloped interactive radio instruction initiative (IRI) toreach approximately one million children.

The program 'English is Fun' is part of Chhattisgarhand Karnataka radio initiative involving 7 millionchildren in over 80,000 schools.

e-Vidya to put life in e-Literacy

The Kerala State IT Mission in India will unveil e-Vidya,a life-support system for the Akshaya centers inMalappuram.

e-Campus recruitment drives fast in Indiae-Campus recruitment is getting quick acceptance in

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ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD OR XO-1-The laptop

is developed by the One Laptop per Child(OLPC) social welfare organization, andmanufactured by the Taiwanese computercompany, Quanta Computer.

The VIA pc-1 Initiative-VIA wants to connect "1billion" people . , and it advocates the use ofalternative renewable energy sources whereverapplicable.

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VIA is working alongside the Geek corps in Mali to determine

the requisite qualities for a computer designed to be used in hotdusty conditions, as well as donating low-powered computersfor use in Mali desert radio stations.

VIA has worked closely with the Asia-Pacific Economic

cooperation (APEC) Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) in acollaborative effort to bridge the digital divide in emergingmarkets within Pacific Rim countries.

One of these projects includes donating 20 systems for use in

the VIA pc-1 ICT Center at the Thai Nguyen University ofAgriculture and Forestry (TUAF) in Vietnam.

VIA is also working with ADOC and the Institute for InformationIndustry (Taiwan), the Samoan Ministry of ICT to establishSamoa's first solar powered information center, arranging for

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SEE IT POSITIVELY..

ITS NOT STATIC

ITS DYNAMIC..

ITS

TRANSIENT.

The drunk looking for his keyscenario.

HOW MUCH TO BRIDGE AND WHAT TO BRIDGE?????