News release: “The Internet will be the catalyst for advancement of programs promoting social justice over the next decade, according to new research from Harvard Professor Elaine C. Kamarck, PhD. The research paper, titled Transforming the Fight Against Poverty: The Internet & Anti-Poverty Strategies, addresses how the Internet has enhanced productivity in government run anti-poverty programs and bridged physical and market isolation gaps prevalent in poor populations.”
“While individuals access to information technology is important to the fight against poverty, there are many other pressing issues, from health to housing, that have to be dealt with simultaneously, if not before, efforts to increase poor peoples access to the Internet. Unlike many other studies that have documented access issues and their effects on the digital divide, this report will concentrate on the ways in which Internet technology has been transforming more traditional anti-poverty efforts. It will argue that, in the next decade, the Internet will be as central to the transformation of programs promoting social justice as it has been to the transformation of business and culture in the previous two decades. In addition, it will illustrate that we are only just beginning to
understand how the Internet can help transform the fight against deprivation and poverty both here in the United States and abroad.”
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