新的信息与通信技术(ICT),诸如因特网和万维网,对于世界上贫穷国家和贫穷人民来说是不是一个惠赠,使其迅速摆脱不发达状态而成为世界新秩序的平等伙伴。或者,新的技术由于被引入到一个不对称的全球系统中,已经成为产生更大社会不平等的引擎。联合国开发计划署的年度出版物《人? New information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, are not a benevolent gift to the world’s poor countries and poor people, enabling them to move quickly out of their underdevelopment to become equal partners in the new world order. Or, as new technology is introduced into an asymmetrical global system, it has become an engine of greater social inequality. Annual publication of the United Nations Development Program "People?