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suggestions for current policy solutions favouring private and civil
society participation in ‘bridging’ the urban-rural telecommunications
divide in India, see Jhunjhunwala et al. 2004.
12. For example, teledensity rates in Chinese cities were 19 per cent as
compared to 4.3 per cent in the rest of the country in 1996. This
was a wider gap than Brazil, which is recognized as one of the most
unequal societies in the world – with teledensity at 16.5 per cent in
cities compared to 8.7 in the rest of the country (Winseck 2002: 29).
13. For more on the ITU’s accounting of development ‘success’ stories
in the telecommunications and ICT see: http://www.itu.int/ITU-
D/e card/index.asp
Scholars have recently taken an interest in examining the role of
telecommunications and ICT in shaping everyday cultural and political
practice in Asia, Africa and Latin America. See: Rafael 2003; as
well as postings on http://www.sarai.net/