Digital Divide Threatens Rural Areas

By Sen. Mike Crapo
Special to Roll Call
June 2, 2005, 12 a.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.



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