Joanna Ellis from The Literary Platform talked about the some book projects that bridge the digital-physical divide and use data in interesting ways.
Similar to the better-publicized issue of technology illiteracy fomenting a digital divide, healthcare illiteracy will create a healthcare-knowledge divide.
Representatives of African countries, ASEAN, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of American States pleaded for debt relief and efforts to narrow the "digital divide" -- the fast-growing gap between nations with access to information technology and those starved of IT.
William Kennard, for example, made a top priority of closing the digital divide for African-Americans and for Americans with disabilities.
This has created a very real digital divide between how current decision-makers and senior staff work and the way workers just entering the marketplace are naturally inclined to learn and communicate.
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Over the past several years, the vast majority of public libraries are helping their communities bridge the digital divide by providing free broadband Wi-Fi access.
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Instead, their customer service agents spend most of their time bridging a digital divide between the consumer and those back-end systems only the agents can reach.
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Ways to improve children's offerings on the Net was a central theme in a wide-ranging discussion that also touched on the digital divide and parental online security concerns.
"This is a disappointing decision and could create a digital television divide by slowing or eliminating access to high-quality digital programming for some consumers, " the MPAA said in a statement.
Some say Cedars is widening the digital divide, others suspect a gimmick for gadget-loving school administrators and many assume the school has done away with all pencils and paper (it has not).
As media becomes an increasing part of every-day life and as we make progress in bridging the digital divide, media literacy is becoming increasingly important.
The digital divide is real, and the economic downturn hurt many working-class families, forcing them to reduce expenses on luxury items like high-speed Internet access.
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Another innovation is the automatic translation of Web sites and creation of "bilingual e-mail" to help teachers, students and parents communicate and bridge the digital divide.
"We cannot close the digital divide without your efforts to provide distance learning, to donate software and low-cost computers for villages, and to train people to use them, " U.S. President Bill Clinton told a group of company executives.
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While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.
Tokyo had also invited the World Economic Forum, the Swiss-based group that brings together leading global companies and governments, to propose measures to address the global digital divide.
As the price of e-readers approaches zero, it opens up more opportunities for people who have been left on the wrong side of the digital divide to access the same wealth of information, entertainment and education as people with normal vision and average-or-better income.
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