The United States pledged itself to a five-year program to boost access to the Internet dramatically in 20 African countries. The conference considered steps to muster information technology in developing countries to make sure they do not fall behind. South Africa could played an important bridge between the industrialized and developing world. Additional conferences were held in Brussels, in which the United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, France, Germany and Italy urged the promotion of a information society. Social and Economic Access to the Internet Variables such as income and education are key to the different impact the consequences of interactive electronic media will have for the different segments of our society.
Access is correlated strongly with income and education.
The research went on to discover that whites were more likely to currently have computer access, whereas African-Americans were more likely to state they would like to acquire access. Nearly twice as many African-Americans that whites responded they plan to buy home computers in the next six months. The gap between the two was even larger the more recently the respondent had last used the Internet. Whites and African-Americans differ also in location of use of Internet. African-Americans were more likely to have used Internet at school.