What's New

INDONESIA RAMP UP

 We are ramping up DigitalDivide.org/Indonesia. Having worked with Indonesian stakeholders for a decade, DigitalDivide.org is now preparing the July 2007 launch of Investor Alliance Against Digital Divide (IGADD.) It is a new initiative whose aim is to mobilize large-scale investments to rapidly extend benefits of new technology to 250 million Indonesians, most of whom have been excluded from the digital revolution. The initiative is a partnership of DigitalDivide.org with the Institute of Technology Bandung, which will serve as IGADD's secretariat, and the Habibie Center.

  
FINDING HAPPINESS IN THAILAND

Click to view Dr. Craig Warren Smith's Aug 7th, 2007 article in the Bangkok Post.

Happiness meets technology in Bangkok. We are collaborating with Public Policy Development Office (PPDO) of Thailand to organize "Technology and Happiness" session, one of five important theme that related to happiness policy development for an international conference on "Happiness and Public Policy" in Bangkok in July 2007. The session will consider how emerging technologies, particularly new digital technologies can contribute to happiness of users in low-income countries. It contributes to a public-policy framework for Thailand and other governments in developing countries that wish to promote "gross national happiness." For example, by drawing measures from neuroscience that indicate happy brain states, regulators may be able to develop new public policies that encourage introduction of "happy technologies," and discourage those that lead to stress and discord. These frameworks will allow technology designers to look beyond materialism as they seek to deliver rich user experiences via cell phones, PCs and other devices.

For more information contact Tasanai Panananda (tp@ppdo.org)

 

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
An introduction to the situation and issues
FALLACIES
Seven misconceptions about the Digital Divide
TRUTHS
Nine truths about
the Digital Divide
HISTORY
A decade of efforts
to close the Divide
GOVERNMENTS
Why governments alone can't close the Divide
PRIVATE SECTOR
Why corporations and entrepreneurs can't close the Divide
HARVARD/MIT
How these universities generated the ideas behind our model
WIRELESS
Why cellular alliances in Asia are the basis for our model
FUNDING
Where the money for our model will come from
STAKEHOLDERS
How each type of stakeholder can anchor our model
MEANINGFUL BROADBAND
Emerging markets need broadband that fits the context of users