[governance] Tales of the Chinese Railway: The Digital 1%, Vint Cerf's Internet as a Human Right (Not), the Digital Divide and Effective Use

[michael gurstein]

Gurstein's Community Informatics  <http://gurstein.wordpress.com> blog:

 
<http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/tales-of-the-chinese-railway-the-d
igital-1-vint-cerfs-internet-as-a-human-right-not-the-digital-divide-and-eff
ective-use/> Tales of the Chinese Railway: The Digital 1%, Vint Cerf's
Internet as a Human Right (Not), the Digital Divide and Effective Use



There is a very widespread belief that the increasingly ubiquitous
availability of mobile communication and through this, access to wireless
Internet, is somehow the resolution of the "digital (and other) divide(s)".

Thus, a current news story from China:

To ease people's woes, the central government this year launched a new
online "ticketing system to curb long lines at stations and prevent scalpers
from selling them in the black market. 

http://wp.me/pJQl5-8F

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