{"id":789,"date":"2006-04-29T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T13:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/04\/29\/worlds-digital-divide-is-narrowing-study\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:49","slug":"worlds-digital-divide-is-narrowing-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/04\/29\/worlds-digital-divide-is-narrowing-study\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Digital Divide Is Narrowing: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?511\">InformationWeek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 nations showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Encouraging is the apparent narrowing of the digital divide,&#8221; said the annual study published by U.S. computer company International Business Machines Corp. and the intelligence unit of British magazine The Economist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is particularly evident in basic connectivity: emerging markets are providing the vast majority of the world&#8217;s new phone and Internet connections,&#8221; the study found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From InformationWeek: 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 nations showed on Wednesday. &#8220;Encouraging is the apparent narrowing of the digital divide,&#8221; said the annual study published by U.S. computer company &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}