信息社会(2)

But how can everybody in the world share the recent technological advances? Millions of people cannot read these words because they don't have access to a computer.

They don't understand English either, the language that 80% of the information is written in. They don't even have a telephone. They are more worried about how far they will have to walk today to get clean water or if they can feed themselves and their families.

For most people on this planet, information is not a priority. The contrast between countries that have information technology and those that don't is called the digital divide.

Scandinavia and South East Asia have a high number of people who use Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Central Africa and the Pacific have almost none.