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South Africa may boast Africa's highest number of ISPs (Internet Service Providers) -- 150 as of 2001 -- but its digital divide is no less sharp. University graduates with degrees in computer science are three times more likely to be white than black South Africans, the South African Institute of Race Relations reports. A mere 8.4 percent of urban residents have access to the Internet, according to South African b-zine MONEYWEB, compared with rates of over 60 percent in the U.S. and Western European countries. Rates in poor provinces fall beneath five percent. Here, in a workshop on the eve of the World Sustainable Development Conference, teenagers from a Johannesburg township hone their computer skills by surfing the Web.
Photo: Mike Hutchings/Reuters
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