Discussion: Reducing the divide

The advantages of bridging the gap in the global digital divide is that, more and more people will be able to access the internet, less and less people will be illiterate because technology can be used to help people learn to read and write. Also there will be a lot more jobs for people in the worlds due to the internet, telecoms ect. The advantages for the poorest nations are that they will get more money, there will be more jobs available and the country will earn more money due to this. Clinton was incorrect, matching internet and telephone levels will not help to reduce income equality because there will be a higher rate of income equality because there is more communications available to the people in the world. Charities such as computer aid do better than harm because they are collecting money to help buy computers for people all over the world to help them with illiterately, the computers mostly go to countries that are less economically developed.

Investigate the impact of access to telecoms

Comparing telecoms between, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Singapore, Vietnam and the UK.

Central Afican Republic;

Population: 4,444,330
Telephones-land lines: 12,000
Mobile/cellular: 130,000
Telephone system: 1 per 100 people
Radio brodcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, Shortwave 1
Country code: 236
Internet country code: .cf
Internet hosts: 21
Internet Users: 13,000

Costa Rica;

Population: 4,195,914
Telephones-land lines: 1.437 million
Mobile/cellular: 1.503 million
Telephone system: good domestice telephone service
Radio brodcast stations: AM 65, FM 51, Shortwave 19
Country code: 506
Internet country code: .cr
Internet hosts: 16,440
Internet Users: 1.5million

Sinapore;

Population: 4,608,167
Telephones-land lines: 1.859 million
Mobile/cellular: 5.619 million
Telephone system: excelent service
Radio brodcast stations: Am 0, FM 17, Shortwave 2
Country code: 65
Internet country code: .sg
Internet hosts: 837,559
Internet Users: 3.105 million

Vietnam;

Population: 86,116,560
Telephones-land lines: 10.8 million
Mobile/cellular: 33.2 million
Telephone system: good general assement
Radio brodcast stations: AM 65, FM7, shortwave 29
Country code: 84
Internet country code: .vn
Internet hosts: 106,772
Internet Users: 17.87 million

UK;

Population: 60,943,912
Telephones-land lines: 33.682 million
Mobile/cellular: 71.992 million
Telephone system: technoligy advanced
Radio brodcast stations: AM 219, FM 413, Shortwave 3
Country code: 44
Internet country code: .uk
Internet hosts: 5.118 million
Internet Users: 40.2 million

The UK has a much more advanced technoligy compared to the other countries, due to these other countries not being a very wealthy country, the country also not able to get hold of the resources needed to have more internet hosts, telephone connections etc.