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Subject: [TriumphOfContent] UN Officials Discuss Digital Divide

UN Officials Discuss Digital Divide
Associated Press 03.01.07, 10:20 AM ET

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/03/01/ap3475552.html

Officials from the United Nations met with Silicon Valley executives to
discuss the "digital divide" - the growing gap between the world's
wealthiest and most computer literate people and the impoverished masses
without Internet access.
Wednesday's meeting, organized by Intel Corp. (nasdaq:
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er=INTC> people ) and the U.N.'s Global Alliance for Information and
Communications Technology and Development, was billed as the first
between U.N. officials and technology executives and venture
capitalists.

More than 100 executives and officials from more than 30 countries
attended the half-day conference. They brainstormed low-cost ways to get
broadband Internet access to Africa, build computer centers throughout
the developing world and encourage entrepreneurship.

"Silicon Valley is the world capital of innovation, and we are counting
on its contribution," said Sarbuland Khan, executive director of the
U.N. technology alliance, founded last year. "In the information and
communication field, the melding of markets and social responsibility is
bringing to life new solutions to age-old problems like poverty,
disease, hunger and illiteracy."
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said the Santa Clara-based semiconductor
company was working with 60 governments in the developing world to bring
low-cost financing of personal computers and high-speed Internet access
to 1 billion people. The company is also working with education
ministries in 40 countries to train 9 million teachers by 2011.

"It's what the world needs and governments want for their citizens,"
Barrett said of the public-private partnership. "It's the right thing to
do and makes business sense."

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