Mobile technology bridges digital divide

Handicapped by economic constraints,-millions of unprivileged people in the developing world continue to be deprived of sufficient access to communication technology, creating strata of information haves and haves-not that widens the digital divide and knowledge gap...

Mobility bridges the digital divide

Building up to its 10th anniversary, Professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Wits University’s Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE), says that the last 10 years has seen mobility effectively sweep away the digital divide, ensuring that previously...

The digital divide widens in classrooms

The learners file into the classroom, sit down at their desks and reach into their backpacks. Instead of taking out notebooks, pens and textbooks, they whip out the latest generation, state of the art computing devices in a “bring your own device” environment. These...

No bridging the digital divide

Despite efforts in the past decade to improve information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, there remains a new digital divide in how countries harness ICT to deliver competitiveness and well-being. This is according to the...