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Based on a paper accepted for the IADIS WBC2004 Web Communities 2004 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 24–26 March 2004.
Several factors constrain the use of information and communication technologies, including the Internet/WWW, in the developing regions of the world, creating the digital divide. Alternative and/or supplementary modes of information access, dissemination and delivery are being experimented with success. Briefly describes, with a case study, the Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) program that has been a successful mode of communication, information access, delivery, and dissemination for the widely dispersed island communities of the South Pacific region.
