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Study: World’s digital divide is narrowing
"Virtually all countries have improved their scores over the past year. The improvement is greater in the lower tiers of the rankings than at the top. As a result, the distance separating the best from the rest has declined,"
- quoted from the study
International - The digital divide is narrowing as citizens in emerging markets get online via computers and mobile phones, with some regions now on a par with developed nations, a ranking of Web-savvy countries showed Wednesday.
Within China and India, regions such as Shanghai and Bangalore have almost the same level of Internet and mobile-phone connections as developed nations, said Peter Korsten, European director at IBM's Institute for Business Value.