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WORLD-INFOSTRUCTURE > THE DIGITAL DIVIDE > AN ECONOMIC AND THEREFORE ...

An Economic and therefore Governmental Issue While the digital divide might bring up the idea that enterprises will be able to sell more and more computers during the next years another truth looks as if there was no hope for a certain percentage of the population to get out of their marginalization, their position of being "have nots". Studies show that the issue of different colors of skin play a role in this, but more than "racial" issues it is income, age and education that decides about the have and have nots. There exist ~ 103 million households in the USA. ~6 million do not even have telephone access. Why should they care about computers? The digital divide cuts the world into centers and peripheries, not into nations, as it runs through the boarder between the North and the South as well as through nations. http://www.digitaldivide.gov/ http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/ http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-344552.html http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/racerelations/msubdigdivide.htm http://www.techweek.com/articles/11-1-99/divide.htm http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/net2/falling.html The most different institutions with various interests in their background work in that field; not rarely paid by governments, which are interested in inhabitants, connected to the net and economy. see also: http://www.washington.edu/wto/digital/ Searching information about the digital divide one will find informations saying that it is growing all the time whereas other studies suggest the contrary, like this one http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-341054.html browse Report: The digital divide -1   Definition 0   An Economic and therefore Governmental Issue +1   The North against the South?  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  Intellectual property Intellectual property, very generally, relates to the output that result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Traditionally intellectual property is divided into two branches: 1) industrial property (inventions, marks, industrial designs, unfair competition and geographical indications), and 2) copyright. The protection of intellectual property is guaranteed through a variety of laws, which grant the creators of intellectual goods, and services certain time-limited rights to control the use made of their products.