Bridging the digital divide

The gap filling role

Bridging the Transatlantic Digital Divide

So far, other banks have been unable to fill the gap.

In financing for development, what is most urgent now is to bridge the financial gap.

Europe may be better off with stop gap measures.

The IMF can help to fill the gap.

Bridging the North South divide in scientific and technological capacity

Nationalism can all too easily fill a void.

The G 20 should fill that gap urgently.

The gap is bridged by a mixture of deficit spending and high taxation on employment.

In theory, about half of the education gap in these areas could be closed by building girls schools.

The project will build a network of knowledge stations serving disadvantaged communities and contributing to bridging the digital divide.

Since the implementation of the Pay Equity Act, progress has been made in closing the gap in salaries.

The need to fill the resulting gap has forced local governments to depend on land sales.

One might expect that national and international non governmental organizations would fill the gap.

We believe that that approach could bridge the existing gap between divergent views on the issue of security.

Guatemala is gradually closing the gap between girls' and boys' access to primary education.

Other governments and intergovernmental bodies have not filled the gap left by the US.

For the past seven years, America s unbridled spending filled the gap.

The Racism Free Workplace Strategy is being designed to address the gap in education.

In that respect, it is crucial to bridge the current gap in the funding of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme.

In the longer run, that gap needs to be filled by higher foreign demand and increased export potential.

It is the state that, to a greater extent in some societies than in others, must fill the gap.

Acknowledging the urgent need to bridge the digital divide and to assist developing countries in accessing the potential benefits of information and communications technologies,

Often called the ratchet mechanism, it could push countries to keep stepping up and help bridge the gap between policy and science.

7 Filling the data gap Gender sensitive statistics for agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.

It is self evident that the MDGs will be that much harder to attain as long as Africa's infrastructure gap is not closed.

But, even if that could be achieved, it would close the trade gap only for as long as Greek prices remained competitive.

But,coupled with mutual irritation, which is particularly strong in Russia, closing the gap is becoming much harder.

The European Union will continue to play its part in trying to make the implementation phase a reality on the ground as a way to bridge the existing gap between norms and action.

Indeed, the single most important question for the future of the eurozone is whether the gap between prospering and struggling members is being closed.

In order to fill the growing vacuum, all we can hope to do is to hold discussions that can create an enabling environment for negotiations and serve as a useful prelude.

There is increasing recognition of the several initiatives put forth by certain Member States in recent years to bridge the emerging divide between religions, cultures and civilizations.

The Global Renewable Energy Fund of Funds should help close the financing gap for developing renewable energy markets and services worldwide.

Likewise, neither narrative alone can provide a vision for the EU the gap between them can be filled only by trust.

If the quality of education in our countries is not improved and the digital divide not bridged, youth in the developing countries will continue to be spectators and will remain excluded from the economy.

Acknowledging the urgent need to bridge the technological gap and to assist developing countries to access the potential benefits of science and technology for human resources development,

Recognizing the role that international cooperation on science and technology can play in addressing the technological gap and the digital divide between the North and the South,

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question.

Similarly, by bridging its growing skills gap, China could augment its GDP by 250 billion by 2020.

So lagging countries growth potential is determined by their ability to close the gap with the technology frontier not by how rapidly the frontier itself is advancing.

The process fell victim to the parties inability to bridge the gap between what was politically feasible for them and what was required for a settlement.

The Foundation produced report cards assessing the progress on closing the gender gap in 10 countries, including Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Uganda.

The European Union fully recognizes the need to bridge the gap in United Nations machinery that exists between the end of armed conflict and the resumption of sustainable development through post conflict peacebuilding.