缩小数字鸿沟要关注服务和应用（Narrowing the digital divide requires attention to services and Applications）.doc

缩小数字鸿沟要关注服务和应用（Narrowing the digital divide requires attention to services and Applications） We often say that informatization reduces the social digital divide and brings more information to remote areas, which will promote the economic development of relatively backward and remote areas and enrich their cultural life. However, the fact is that with the rapid development of Internet technology, the social digital gap is not shrinking, but expanding. For a long time, for the development of rural informatization, we are only satisfied with the construction of hardware, to rural areas to pull up optical fiber, open mobile networks, and even give PC. Every village on the phone, every village through broadband project construction, to the rural construction of a information highway , but not equipped with high-quality sports car.. Compared with the rapid development of the Internet in developed areas, the gap of information in the vast rural areas is also increasing. Whats the reason? Its important that we are only satisfied with the hardware, but forget the software. For the vast rural areas, with broadband, mobile Internet access, there is no intimate services and applications, the computer is just furnishings, broadband and what is the value? In fact, narrowing the digital divide, need not Tandaqiuquan, also not immediately pull on the cable, should start from the basic service, with simple, easy to use, to meet the user required service, the vast rural areas gradually adapt to the needs of users, and constantly improve the level of hardware, this is a way to adapt to the information construction in rural areas the way. Recently, I understand the rural information platform - 12582 China Mobiles nongxintong, which in October 2006 in Chongqing opened a business in my opinion is a rural informatization construction path. 12582 nongxintong to voice service as the focus, short message and Internet service as a supplement. This information platform, did not start the pursu