The Global Information Infrastructure Revisited.
Ideally, the internet will eventually evolve into a global information infrastructure, which, by creating a global information marketplace, will narrow the poverty gap and eliminate many of the existing geographic barriers to prosperity and equality. On the other hand, there is a risk that the inter...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 813 - 823 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2001
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