THE SPAM DIVIDE
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In rich countries, unsolicited e-mail, or spam, is a nuisance, but in poorer countries, it is a threat to development, says Foreign Policy contributor Elisabeth Eaves. According to a report by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), spam will not stop the development of information technology, but it will severely retard it. In developing nations, bandwidth is expensive and connection speeds are often so slow that spammers can bring a nation's network down -- or reduce it to a snail's pace -- by flooding inboxes. Since local Internet service providers lack the software or a trained staff, they can do little to fix the problem. Moreover, the impact of spam on developing countries is difficult to determine and pin down with a dollar figure, says Eaves.
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