ABSTRACT
Although impressive gains have already been achieved in some MDGs, such as the reduction of extreme poverty, access to safe drinking water, gender parity in primary schools, and improvement in lives for at least 100 million slum dwellers, targets were only partially met for many goals (Figure 1.2). Serious shortfalls are
Contents 1.1 Introduction and Context ............................................................................3 1.2 ICT for Sustainable Development ................................................................6 1.3 The Global Digital Divide Challenge to Sustainable Development ............11 1.4 The Five Levels of the Digital Divide .........................................................15 1.5 Implications and Recommendations ..........................................................21 Endnotes .............................................................................................................24
expected in targets like access to basic sanitation, deaths from tuberculosis, and maternal mortality. In addition, hunger remains a global challenge, illiteracy still holds back more than 120 million young people, progress on primary school enrollment has slowed, and one in five children under age five in the developing world are still underweight.2
