Question

• What is the digital divide? Describe two fundamentally different dimensions of the digital divide.

Answer 1

Digit divide:
It is a social issue, which refers, the differing amount of information/data between those
who have internet access and who do not have internet access
Dimensions of digital divide:
passive dimensions:
1)Access infrastructure: thephysical infrastructure for transmission, such as telephone,satellite,radio,cable television and electricity wires
2)Connection equiment: such as computer, modem and access line
potential active appropriation:
3)Training to use computers and internet
4)intellectural capacities