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Article: "World unemployment rises" from the BBC
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This is an excerpt from an article I'm reading on BBC News... It is about world unemployment, but ends talking about the hope of IT workforce, and problems the Digital Divide presents...

"The global economy will have to generate 500 million new jobs during the next 10 years just to accommodate new seekers of the labour force and reduce the current level of unemployment."

...

It hopes the information technology revolution, will provide some of the new jobs.

But the ILO says developing countries will only benefit if they can improve education standards and their telecommunications infrastructure.

Only 5% of the world's population has ever logged on to the internet, and nearly all the users live in industrialised countries.

The report warns that the digital divide, between the technological haves and have-nots is widening.

And it says that those countries that don't get on board the digital revolution face a loss of competitive economic strength, as well as a possible decline in national income.

Writer: Claire Doole (Geneva)
Origin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1133980.stm

January 30, 2009 | 10:38 AM Comments  0 comments

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