Digital Inclusion Quotes

Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers.

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.

Distributed technology does not necessarily lead to distributed economics.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

We need an equity plan for technology in general.

I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.