Digital Divide Threatens Rural Areas

• By Sen. Mike Crapo
• Special to Roll Call
• June 1, 2005, 1:57 p.m.

We are facing a growing divide between those with frequent and immediate access to information and those without. As people live and work outside the high-speed technology sphere, they lose access to valuable markets and vital information which addresses a broad range of issues necessary to a healthy society: health, education and political awareness.