Digital Divide: Indonesia
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Last Modified: 03/21/08
Summary: A Jetpak created on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:43:15 GMTIndonesia Ramp UP
INDONESIA RAMP UP
We are ramping up DigitalDivide.org/Indonesia. Having worked with Indonesian stakeholders for a decade, DigitalDivide.org is now preparing the July 2007 launch of Investor Alliance Against Digital Divide (IGADD.) It is a new initiative whose aim is to mobilize large-scale investments to rapidly extend benefits of new technology to 250 million Indonesians, most of whom have been excluded from the digital revolution. The initiative is a partnership of DigitalDivide.org with the Institute of Technology Bandung, which will serve as IGADD's secretariat, and the Habibie Center.
From: http://www.digitaldivide.org/dd/whatsnew.html
History: Telecom Act
he Digital Divide first loomed as a public-policy issue in 1996 in the
debates surrounding the passage of the US Telecommunications Act. Back
then, the Digital Divide issue was caught in an ideological friction
between public and private sectors. Politicians argued the private
sector should pay costs of bringing the poor into the information
society. The private sector disagreed. Companies insisted that
governments should subsidize technological infrastructures and
deregulate the telecom sector so that prices could drop. Both sides
were right, in a way. Corporate lobbyists and regulators saw the
Digital Divide issue as an extension of the 50-year old debate over
"universal service," in which governments and telephone companies
postured over who should pay the high costs hooking up rural folks.
From: http://www.digitaldivide.org/dd/history.html
