A short presentation introducing the concept, issues and solutions to the global digital divide.

1. Digital Divide What? Where? Who? An introduction to concepts, issues and some solutions Julie Lindsay for the Flat Classroom Workshop @HK, September 2009

7. Internet access globally in 2004

8. Trend for mobile technology in developing countries

9. Digital Divide decrease?

14. Grameen Phone " One of their best known accomplishments is the digital divide initiative known as the Grameen Phone program. Women are given loans to start small telecom businesses in their home village. They receive a mobile phone and training, then make that phone available to villagers for community use. For villages with no other telecommunications link to the outside world, the Grameen Phone program has created new opportunities for local residents while helping women achieve improved socioeconomic status. ….” Muhammed Yunus and Nobel Peace Prize 2006

15. Hole in the Wall The "Hole in the Wall" project is a testament to the competency and capacity of children to construct their own knowledge in a community of practice. Internet access can connect children to each other and the 21st century.

16. Hole in the Wall