Introduction

Currently, the dividing lines between the rich and the poor, between the North and the South, are the digital texts and technology networks. If "digital divide" is maybe an over-used phrase, it does represent a reality that cannot be ignored. Fifteen per cent of the world's population controls around 80 per cent of the world's telephones and about 90 per cent of access points to the Internet, and they are 13 times more likely to own personal computers than the rest. And the rest are the 85 per cent of the world's population living in low and lower-middle income countries.

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