From Digital Divide to Digital Dividend: What Will It Take?
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One of the greatest challenges in higher education is to give billions of impoverished people access to it across the globe. The growth of information and communications technologies (ICTs) over the past decade holds great promise for meeting this challenge, yet the limited access that most of the world's population still has to such technologies constitutes its own challenge as well. Can we connect technology to learning and training for the benefit of these populations?
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تاریخ انتشار 2006