United States or Ukraine ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
We hope they will be able to watch Sky News on their portable televisions, but maybe this is just a dream." For the media particularly, there is an abyss between the 'info-rich' and the 'info-poor'. In many African countries, the circulation of newspapers is very low compared to the population figures, and each copy is read by at least twenty people.
The number of its subscribers jumped from 100,000 in 1996 to 600,000 in 1997. The abyss between the "info-rich" and the "info-poor" is not only the one dividing developed and developing countries. In any country, there are gaps between the rich and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the people who belong to society and the people who are rejected by it.
The "Info-Rich" and the "Info-Poor" / 2.3. The Internet and the Other Media Since a few years ago, the Internet has become integrated into our daily life, and people have gotten connected at home, at work or in their university. At the end of 1997, the number of Internet users was estimated at 90 or 100 million, with one million new users every month.
However, the demarcation between the "info-rich" and the "info-poor" does not systematically follow the demarcation between the so-called developed and developing countries. Access to information technology in the so-called rich countries is also rather uneven. Some developing countries, such as Malaysia or a number of countries in Latin America, have a very dynamic telecommunication policy.
Competing software firms have little interest in preserving the open standards that are essential to a fully functioning interactive network. Markets encourage innovation, but they do not necessarily insure the public interest." The "Info-Rich" and the "Info-Poor" There is a close correlation between economic and social development and access to telecommunications.
Word Of The Day