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Dr. Phillip Harter of Stanford University :
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this:
1 would have a computer
But many more would have access to TV and radio

There is much to be gained from sharing innovative uses of technology as well as in helping entrepreneurs in the field who build sustainable businesses. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said earlier this year that "... we are still very far from ensuring that the benefits of ICT are available to all. The digital divide still yawns as widely as ever, with billions of people still unconnected to a global society, which, on its side, is more and more wired."