Digital Divide Quotes

• It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Cutting, Technology

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2483, Best Books on

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• We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.

  Al Gore

  Country, Technology, Bridges

  Al Gor's Foreign Policy Speech to the International Press Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2000.

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• Muchos ven en la tecnología el problema de la llamada brecha digital. Otros la ven como la solución. La tecnología no es ni lo uno ni lo otro. Debe funcionar en conjunción con el sistema empresarial, económico, político y social.

  Carly Fiorina

  Empresa, Tecnología, Personas

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• Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible?

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Home, Opportunity, Bridges

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Cuando la gente me habla de la brecha digital, no pienso tanto en quién tiene acceso a qué tecnología como en quién sabe crear y expresarse en el nuevo lenguaje de la pantalla. Si a los estudiantes no se les enseña el lenguaje del sonido y las imágenes, ¿no debería considerárseles tan analfabetos como si salieran de la universidad sin saber leer ni escribir?

  George Lucas

  Escribir, Universidad, Pensar

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• No minimizaría la brecha digital, que separa el mundo informatizado del resto, ni subestimaría la importancia de los libros tradicionales.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, World, Underestimate

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• Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Worry, Digital

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• We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, People, Library

  Fuente: www.researchgate.net

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• Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

  Jonathan Alter

  Class, United States, Warfare

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• Estoy encantado de participar en la campaña contra la brecha digital para que todos los centros escolares sepan qué medidas pueden tomar para combatirla, ya que afecta a los niños de su localidad, y para ofrecer a los proveedores de TIC, organismos públicos, organizaciones benéficas y otras entidades toda una serie de oportunidades de contribuir a ella.

  Estelle Morris, Baronesa Morris de Yardley

  Niños, Escuela, Oportunidad

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• One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."

  Tom Peters

  Dangerous Situations, Bricks And Mortar, Long

  Fuente: www.researchgate.net

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