I do not believe so. New technology can also play an important role in basic education. In Africa, for example, organizations such as SchoolNet Africa use new technologies to train school teachers because, as you know, this is a task that, among others, has been complicated by the AIDS epidemic.
Telephone networks and telephony devices, some of which are better than the cell phones we use here, are also available. This infrastructure is extremely important, not only for agriculture and education, but also for the health sector.
We have provided funding to research networks in Uganda that use Treos and BlackBerrys to gather data on health in very rural regions. They then share this data with the major health and medical centres, something that was previously not possible.
New technology improves public services, including education and health services. It is also of great use to farmers, who now have much greater access to market information. For example, a woman will no longer have to undertake a long journey to a particular market if she is able to ascertain that she could sell her produce for a better price at another market.
To my mind, the ability to communicate serves not to cleave a gap, but rather to bridge that which already exists between urban and rural areas.