Closing the digital divide

ICTP's Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) is carrying out several projects on information and communication technologies for development as well as training activities in collaboration with ICTP's Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory, the Diploma Programme, the Marie Curie Library and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, among others. An article in the 13 April online version of the European Journal of Physics by SDU staff members Enrique Canessa, Marco Zennaro and Carlo Fonda reviews these activities, and underscores the importance of wide and immediate access to knowledge not only to science but also to the sustainable development of society.

The article is titled "Supporting science in developing countries using open technologies" and can be viewed at:

http://stacks.iop.org/0143-0807/30/651