Look to the Internet to fight poverty
As President-elect Barack Obama begins to put together his government, one question reigns supreme. How can he possibly deal with the economic crisis and the war in Iraq, and still have anything left over for the social justice initiatives that are so dear to many of the Democrats who elected him?
The challenge is tough but not impossible. In the past decade, information technology has begun to transform anti-poverty efforts and bring to the ...
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The possibilities of ICT's (Information and communication technologies) to help fight poverty are certain, but hard to materialize in the poor countries (despite some some highly successful experiences as the author remarks) Without doubt a big effort to apply ICTs in the USA intensively to anti-poverty efforts will help to generalize their use in the underdeveloped countries.