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Understanding the Digital Divide

The document discusses the digital divide, which refers to unequal access to technology and its benefits based on factors like income, education, age, or location. It presents different types of digital divides including economic, usability, and empowerment divides. The document also discusses how addressing the digital divide could promote social mobility, democracy, and economic growth.

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Understanding the Digital Divide

The document discusses the digital divide, which refers to unequal access to technology and its benefits based on factors like income, education, age, or location. It presents different types of digital divides including economic, usability, and empowerment divides. The document also discusses how addressing the digital divide could promote social mobility, democracy, and economic growth.

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Group II

Digital Divide

01 MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY


it refers to the fact that certain parts of the
population have substantially better
DIGITAL opportunities to benefit from the new
economy than other parts of the population.
DIVIDE

02
AN ARTICLE IN CROSSROADS
PUTS IT THIS WAY:
Adopted by the ACM Council in 1992, the
“In a fair society, all individuals
ACM code of Ethics and Professional
would have equal opportunity to
Conduct focuses on issues involving the
Digital Divide that could prevent certain participate in, or benefit from, the use
categories of people from receiving of computer resources regardless of
adequate access to the wide variety of race, sex, religion, age, disability,
resources offered by computer technology. national origin, or other similar
factors.

03
A New Understanding
of the Digital Divide

04
Economic Divide
This is what many call the digital divide. The
economic divide is the idea that some people can
afford to have a computer and Internet access
while others cannot.

Usability Divide
Usability is concerned with the fact that “technology
remains so complicated that many people couldn’t use
a computer even if they got one for free.”

Empowerment Divide
Empowerment is the most difficult to solve. It is
concerned with how we use technology to empower
ourselves. Very few users truly understand the power
that digital technologies can give them.

05
REFINING THE
DIGITAL DIVIDE

06
Social Mobility Democracy
Lack of computer education works to the Greater use of the Internet can lead to healthier
disadvantage of children with lower democracies especially in participation in
socioeconomic status. elections.

Economic Growth
Greater use of the Internet in developing countries could provide a
shortcut to economic advancement. Using the latest technology
could give companies in these countries a competitive advantage.

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