While most African nations talked about a digital divide, Rwanda was busy bridging it.
Similar to the better-publicized issue of technology illiteracy fomenting a digital divide, healthcare illiteracy will create a healthcare-knowledge divide.
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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There is apparently a big digital divide at the beach. 71% of Americans surveyed vacationed as a regular annual event, and more than half, 56%, felt doctors should be able to write notes prescribing vacations.
The study found that seven of the 10 states with the lowest median incomes for African Americans have a large digital divide.
What is at stake is whether we advance together towards a truly connected world, or instead contemplate a deepening digital divide with all its consequences.
"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.
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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Considering that the right to free speech and press freedom are deeply interconnected with the right to access information, it is a priority to bridge the digital divide both between and within countries.
William Kennard, for example, made a top priority of closing the digital divide for African-Americans and for Americans with disabilities.
The prime minister said he believed in the power of the internet as a tool in ending the social "digital divide".
She has distinguished herself through her work to modernize universal service and promote competition, and as a champion for closing America's digital divide.
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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).
Mobile devices are making a dent in the U.S. digital divide.
For many years we have lobbied companies and governments to bridge the digital divide to connect Cumbria, yet a lack of investment and commitment from service providers has for too long left us technologically isolated.
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There will also be efforts to make sure that children from more deprived backgrounds do not lose out because of a lack of computer equipment at home, with a pilot scheme examining ways of reducing this "digital divide".
Pew's research is encouraging, but there's still a long way to go in helping seniors bridge the digital divide.
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.
In an independent Scotland, there will be a need to look at regulation differently to eliminate the digital divide and to ensure our world class digital ambitions are delivered.
The digital divide is no longer about whether or not a rural farmer has an online connection in his hut, but is part of the overall development divide: improving the quality of rural peoples' lives relies in part on access to, and the use of, new technologies to communicate.
This study looked at the world as a whole, but the scientists say that it does show that the "digital divide" between rich and poor countries is growing.
Other issues, such as the number of website that are inaccessible to disabled people, and the prevailing digital divide were perhaps of more immediate concern to ordinary people, a spokesperson from Citizens Online had suggested.
The industry end of the partnership is working through PowerUp, a coalition of businesses and nonprofit groups formed last year to close the "digital divide, " the gap between those who have access to technology and those less fortunate who do not.
Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, has expressed a preference for the spectrum to be used for broadband internet access and to help bridge the digital divide especially in rural areas.
The new LTE network from Ericsson will enable UNE offer unique experiences to individuals and businesses in pursuit of achieving a connected society, thus contributing to the major objectives set by the Colombian government aimed at closing the digital divide and increase Internet penetration.
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