World Summit on the Information Society approved an ambitious call to extend the Internet and the benefits of information technology to the poorest corners of the world.
Around 90 percent of the world population is not connected to the Internet, depriving them of a 21st-century resource and digging a “digital divide” between rich and poor. But richer states, notably Japan and the European Union, which generally did not send top government officials to Geneva, resisted calls for a “Solidarity Fund” to close the gap.
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