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<DIV><SPAN class=218011013-11102004>Can I just quote from the WSIS
website:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218011013-11102004></SPAN><SPAN
class=218011013-11102004>"</SPAN><EM>Paradoxically, while the digital revolution
has extended the frontiers of the global village, the vast majority of the world
remains unhooked from this unfolding phenomenon. With the ever-widening gulf
between knowledge and ignorance, the development gap between the rich and the
poor among and within countries has also increased</EM>.<SPAN
class=218011013-11102004>"</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218011013-11102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does this mean that
the WSIS see those who are digitally excluded as 'ignorant' as if there is no
vaulable knowledge that does not exist on the Internet and the information flow
needs only to be one way - that is for those poor ignorant people to receive our
welath of knowledge?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218011013-11102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>If this is so,
surely we need to be promoting telecentres as models of two-way information
exchange, documentation of local knowledge etc. In my experience this is
of equal if not more imoprtance to people in remote communities as receiveing
the information that is out there on the net.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218011013-11102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>If this is not so,
then we need totell them to change their website.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218011013-11102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>hannah
beardon</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>