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| Welcome to Digital Volunteers, Inc. |
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| "The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment." |
| --Albert Einstein |
| In parts of the developing world, fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people can access a computer. Contrast this with nearly 600 in every 1,000 people in the developed world. In response to this overwhelming disparity, Digital Volunteers has partnered with nonprofits and socially-conscious volunteers to undertake the effort of bridging what has been termed the international "digital divide" between the developed world and the developing world. |
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| The world is undergoing an Information Communications Technology (ICT)
revolution, a transformation that has enormous social and economic implications for developed and less-developed countries of the world. A gigantic gulf already exists between the industrialized and developing countries in terms of access to ICTs, which include radios, computers, television, and mobile phones. |
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| Industrialized countries are home to 88% of all internet users, yet make up only
15% of the world's population. Unsurprisingly, PC ownership levels differ
dramatically between developed and developing nations. For example, in South
Asia only 4 per 1,000 people own a PC compared to the 585 per 1,000 people in the US. |
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Multiple initiatives have been, and continue to be, implemented across the world
to address the major obstacles to bridging the digital divide.
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| Digital Volunteers provides an innovative solution to this major problem by facilitating a meeting of skilled volunteers, especially from industrialized countries, with nonprofits aimed at targeting the global digital divide dilemma, especially in developing countries. Digital Volunteers seeks to ensure that the volunteers it relays on to the nonprofits are fully motivated and qualified with the skills that will propel the nonprofits in their missions. |
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| Another goal of Digital Volunteers is to encourage long-term relationships between the volunteers and the nonprofits they serve. The hope is that, over time, an on-going relationship between the two parties can develop. However, in order to continue, we need your help. |
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