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The UK National Working Party on Social Inclusion (INSINC)
with support from IBM produced a report
on The Net Result - Social Inclusion in the Information
Society, arguing that new technologies will address the
divide if all citizens must have "access to the latest
electronic communication channels", information "considered
vital for participating in society" is free and there's
a substantial investment in information handling skills.
Herbert Kubicek edited The Social Shaping of Information
Superhighways: European & American Roads to the Information
Society (New York, St Martins 97), a collection of essays
considering infrastructure and social policy initiatives.
Gladys Ganley's Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experience with
Communications Technologies (Norwood, Ablex 96) and Robert
Campbell's Soviet and Post-Soviet Telecommunications: An
Industry Under Reform (Boulder, Westview Press 95) offer
a perspective on developments in the former USSR, often not
considered in discussions of the divide. The CDT has mapped
connectivity in Eastern Europe.
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