Interest in the development of the digital divide

Pictures taken from http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/03/03/1204402367663.html and http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/newsroom/stats/


Had you ever heard about digital divide? Maybe not, but it is certain that in the world there is a major socio-economic difference between communities that have good internet access and those without. The differences are between the north and south, rich and poor, men and women etc. Having trouble in the access of technologies, there will be an imbalance in the freedom and rights of individual human beings.
The most affected are as always the poor countries where the Internet is a high cost and where government policies may prevent their citizens from visiting malicious sites to the national interest, control access to foreign sites and what their citizens publish , thus isolating the network.
The main stakeholders in the digital divide to subsist are companies, afraid that their workers are aware of the poor working conditions they suffer, because it is clear that information is power and the control of societies makes them much more dependent on powerful. Certain religions may also be against in the access to scientific articles, network libraries, as well as other tools that make them lose faithful.

Some people do not get along with progress having business interests in all of this .With these activities they only managed to undermine the public interest for us humans, being manipulated. Internet is the perfect place to discuss and the more we are, the more conclusions and positions we can get, it would also enrich the knowledge with the contrast of cultures, ages, education. With a decent internet access and a good knowledge of this, the poor countries will be allowed to develop, and also help them to manage its resources well.
I disagree with people who claim that this problem was halted in 2005 with computers and Internet access worldwide, because we still have to deal with the fact that many people could not even eat , so that they are not thinking about ICT.
Finally I will left some questions in the air :
1. If you live in a world so global in which we mimicked little by little, why it is not the same in the case of ICT?
2. Will we stop this problem or it will continue to rise?
3. Will the ONU relate the issue of ICT to achieving the millennium goals?