We are living in an information age with citizens that do not have access.

There is a danger that a digital divide might worsen existing inequities between rural and urban areas, rich and poor, literate and non-literate and between developed and developing countries.

Learning and Training for Work in the Knowledge Society,
International Labour Office, Geneva, 2002
Report IV (1), Appendix 1, pg 105, paraphrased

Prioritize the proliferation of technology to the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

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