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.
People often talk about the healthcare divide in terms of access to care.
"Groups that have traditionally been on the other side of the digital divide in basic internet access are now using wireless connections to go online, " said the report.
"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.
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.
"A lack of identity has become the divide in India, denying needy Indians access to welfare programmes, " Mr Dalwai says.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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