Reducing the divide

The advantages for the developed world briding the digital divide are that it is better for everyone and makes us globally better prepared for things. It will also give other and less developed countries the use of equipment that can help them find out when hurricanes and earthquakes are near in order to alert people this would be great and cause less upset and problems for the world. It also gives them the chance to learn about more things using the internet and so forth, this is better for the world also.
There are of course many advantages for the poorest of countries. It means they will be able to educate themselves better and once again be better prepared in a time of crisis and just altogether be better off in their way of living as having technology will enable them to gain power and money hopefully.
I do not think Clinton was right as levels of internet access can be seen as more useful than levels telephone access and i do not see that any of this will affect income equality. There is no reason why it should, anyway.
I think charities such as computer aid do more good than harm, as they try and most often succeed in putting new technology and mainly computers into poor countries. The problem is there are so many poor countries that do not have technology that it is impossible for them to get computers for all of them, however, they certainly try and have already made a significant difference.