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Here's an article on digital divide issues that various people on this
list contributed to in some way. Please share it around.<br>
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Angelina Chapin. Huffington Post, Nov. 14, 2013<br>
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<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada">Digital
divide: Canada's poorest sacrifice basic needs to get connected.<br>
</a><br>
<p
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Toyozato clutches his ringing phone and panics. He has no idea how to
answer it.</p>
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style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia,Century,Times,serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How
could he be so stupid? He’s owned the thing for two damned months, but
still feels like a baby holding a grown-up’s toy. As the ringtone
becomes louder, his anxiety mounts. Green circles emanate from the
phone icon, taunting him like a bully. “What’s the matter? You can’t
pick me up?”</p>
<p
style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia,Century,Times,serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No.
He doesn’t know how.</p>
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is something so simple for everyone else so hard for me?</em></p>
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style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; font-style: italic ! important;">Stupid,
stupid.</em></p>
<p
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hands me the Samsung Galaxy S3. It’s an automated call from Microsoft
with a password to access his Hotmail account. “You answer it,” he
says. Surely a younger person will know what to do. Yet I’m just as
dumbfounded as I jab at that menacing green icon. But where Yuji feels
shame, I feel blame.</p>
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style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; font-style: italic ! important;">Why
did Samsung screw up so badly? ........................... <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada">MORE</a><br>
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Marita<br>
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