The second part of a two-part symposium in Social Science Computer Review devoted to equality and inequality in information societies, the three contributions to this issue focus on the growing importance of information technology (IT) in less developed countries and the gnawing disparities in IT access and impact with more developed countries, the focus of the symposium’s first part (see Social Science Computer Review, Winter 1998).
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