The Digital Divide, E-Commerce, and ODR:

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  • Mohamed Wahab
  • Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab
چکیده

The revolutionary advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (“ICT”) has intrinsically altered the scale on which human affairs take place; it has fostered an interdependence of local, national, and international communities that is far greater than any previously experienced. The most significant feature of this technological revolution is the invention of the Internet: this network of interactive and global communications complex that has resulted in a compression of space and time, transmogrified the classic models of commercial interaction, business, and economic paradigms, and reshaped our lives and communities accordingly.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003