In fact, the more information flows throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between "information haves" and "information have-nots," leading to digital divide.

事实上，整个社会的流动的信息越多，“信息拥有者”和“信息缺失者”之间的差距就越大，从而导致了数字鸿沟。

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Safecast's fixed sensors and mobile units, which identify "hot spots" by going from schoolyard to sandpit, seek to fill a gap in the official information.

Safecast 的固定感应器以及移动感应器——从校园到沙坑等“热点地区”都能感应到——正尽力填补政府信息的空缺。

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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.

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Yet the organisation seems to have a surprising gap in its own knowledge - it has told the Information Commissioner that it doesn't hold any information on what its chief executive is paid.

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So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college to focus on bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.

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