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Concerns about the disparities between industrialized and developing countries, especially with respect to Internet access and use, have touched off a worldwide debate about the global digital divide. Rather than a division between developed and developing countries, however, the divide at this moment reflects the vast technological advances in North America and the Scandinavian countries compared with the rest of the world. Together, those two regions stand on one side of a gaping digital chasm that appears to have left much of the remaining world behind.

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Rather than a division between developed and developing countries, the divide at this moment reflects the vast advances in information and communicatons technologies in North America and the Scandinavian countries compared with the rest of the world.

目前的数字鸿沟不是发达国家和发展中国家之间的,它反映出和世界上其他国家相比,北美和斯堪的那维亚国家在信息和通信技术方面享有的巨大优势。