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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8889

16 February 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 35
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telecommunications
Women and elderly crossing digital divide, but poor still lag behind

Brussels, 15/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Women and the elderly are beginning to cross the digital divide. However, more deprived sections of society are being excluded. This information is brought to light in a new Commission report on “e-exclusion”, which concludes that access to the Internet and computer skills can help people fight poverty. According to the report, women have overtaken men in the past three years in internet take-up. The over 55s are also increasingly gaining computer...

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