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Abstract title:

Electronic information: promise and peril

Author:

Michael L. Tan

Issue: Volume 9, Number 5 1999

With reference to a recent visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh, the author gives his personal view on the spread of IT technology that accompanies globalisation. He comments particularly on the communication potential of the Internet and email, and the tendency of the technology to aggravate existing inequalities.

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