[UgaBYTES] "creating a local digital divide"!!!

[kareem kasim]

"Greater clarity is required in deciding what telecentres projects are aiming to do. If these issues
are not thought through, there is a risk that telecentres will either 'fail' and waste money, or will
serve to bring the division between the 'information haves' and 'have-nots' into communities -
creating a local digital divide." Benjamin and Dahms, 1998

Last week end I came across this quote, which  I read years ago when I graduated and started to work in the very first telecentre in Egypt!!
Things have changed dramatically since then (1998), but one thing struck me the most as I read it today!! it is the term; "creating a local digital divide"!!!

It made me think and thought to share this with you, may be we can think together!? 



Karim A. Kasim
Telecentre.org Knowledge Sharing and Networking Project Manager-Middle East and North Africa
Egypt ICT Trust Fund - (MCIT/UNDP Egypt)
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