New IT and Social Inequality in Developed and Developing Countries: Report on an International Conference

Open to the Public

Date: Wed, Mar 17, 1999 Time: 05:15pm - 07:15pm

Are the new Information Technologies contributing to greater global productivity and equity? Or are they becoming engines of global inequality? And what are the political, economic, social, and strategic implications of the trends? Professor Ernest J. Wilson III, Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, answers these questions based on the recently concluded international conference that he organized on "New IT and Social Inequality" (February 16-17).