This global digital divide can be transformed into dividends. It could include providing billions of people with access to educational and health services, boosting incomes and stimulating economic opportunities, and creating the tools to manage natural resources more sustainably. During the conference, novel business models and innovative approaches to apply information technologies where they are most needed will be examined. It enables farmers to check the latest crop prices and helps wives maintain contact with their husbands who work overseas. These are digital community centers that give villagers access to telemedicine, the Internet and electronic trading.
Students comprise one-third of the country's population.
Argentina is home to half of the Internet start-ups in Latin America. In the process, they are preserving endangered cultures while at the same time providing them with better sources of incomes. The digital face of farming is precision agriculture, where advanced software, sensors and other technology will enable farmers to use less fertilizers and pesticides, and put them where they are needed. This pioneered by Washington State University's Center for Precision Agricultural Systems. Around the world, watershed management is emerging as a hot political, environmental and social issue.