Friday, July 15, 2005
danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: The real digital divide
danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: The real digital divide: "It is increasingly clear that, when it comes to bridging the “digital divide” between rich and poor, the mobile phone, not the personal computer, has the most potential. “Emerging markets will be wireless-centric, not PC-centric,” says C. K. Prahalad, a management scholar and author of “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”, a book that highlights the collective purchasing power of the world's 4 billion poorest people and urges firms to try to profit from it."