The Economist devotes one of its leaders to discuss the digital divide and the UN’s creation of a Digital Solidarity Fund. The magazine argues that creation of for example community computer centers, cannot bridge the real divide because the illiteracy rate is too high in many of the affected countries. Instead, they say, the real gap is between those with a cell phone, and those without. And, how to achieve high penetration of mobile phones? Less UN involvement and more liberalization of the market, of course.

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