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March 2002

The Digital Dividend

Bridging the digital divide could lead to--surprise!--profits.

By Stuart N. Brotman

Political, intellectual and business leaders are engaged today in a vigorous and far-ranging debate over what should be done to address the "digital divide"-the fact that various geographic, socioeconomic and cultural subpopulations have widely varying access to a range of digital technologies, including computers, the Internet, mobile phones and, increasingly, TV. These conversations encompass multiple perspectives and options-everything from giving schools, community organizations and citizens of lesser-developed countries broader access to computers and the Internet to simply letting market forces run their course. And they are truly global, whether in various meetings of the United Nations or as a prominent agenda item at the annual G8 summit of the world's leading industrial countries. Yet strikingly, they lack a single organizing principle.

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