this is slide about digital divide and its impact on society, media, education etc. and also what measures needed to reduce it.

1. Digital Divide

2. What is Digital Divide?
• The term digital divide refers to the gap between people who have access to
digital technology – such as computers, Internet, mobile phones, etc. – and
those who have very limited access or no access at all.

3. Old vs. New
• ―Old digital divide -- divide between those who have access to technology
and those who do not
• New digital divide – divide between those who use technology and those
who do not

4. The New Digital Divide
digital divide = circumstance
new digital divide = choice

5. Impact on Human Resources

6. Impacts (included)..
• Impact on education
• Impact on human rights
• Impact of media literacy
• Impact on poverty
• Impact on economy

7. Impact on education
• In the country, every school has to teach ICT, and every school should be connected to internet.
• Schools in different countries are often linked together to exchange information and this enables pupils
to work together on projects or to learn about other cultures or growing up in other countries.
• Resources to help in education such as documents, web sites of information or on-line databases can
be held on the Internet for research use by students.
• Students that have computers with Internet access at home have greater opportunities for research
and study than those who do not.
• Internet access is also provided in most libraries, for the local community.

8. Impact on human right
• As ICTs may function as a gateway to the realization of human rights, limitations on access and use
have been shown to interfere with a series of rights, including the right to access to information and to
freedom of expression.
• Women should have right to race her voice against any false activity.
• Some countries like, Estonia, France and most recently Finland have made internet access a human
right.

9. Impact of media literacy
• It is a new type of literacy, which is one of the most important means of communication in
contemporary society.
• Media literacy take less or more participation in several fields of society: economic, social,
institutional, political, health, and cultural.
• The focus of technology education must shift to the “new media literacies: a set of skills
that young people need in the new media
landscape…The new literacies almost all
involve social skills developed through
collaboration and networking”

10. Impact on poverty
• 1 in 10 Americans are unemployed
• 1 in 5 seniors are poor
• These are people that desperately need access to the internet, the ones that
would benefit most from the resources available online (e.g. Medicare, Social
Security information, job searching …)

11. Impact on economy
• People with Internet access are able to take opportunities, such as...shopping bargains - able to
search web sites for the 'best buys'.
• participate in online auctions.
• buy from overseas companies.
• buying goods at any time of the day - not limited to shopping hours.
• Businesses can increase their profits by setting up web sites and selling their goods or services to
anyone in the world.
• A widening digital divide between countries may lead to a widening economic divide between
industrial developed countries and the poorer ones. The rich countries get richer...the poor countries
cannot compete

12. Measures to minimize digtial divide

13. (contd..)
• Educating people about their benefits deriving out of digital media
• Making people afford and accessible to the mobile devices like feature/smartphones and
tablets
• Provide people with the mobile internet services (not with hidden agenda to acquire user
base in the name of free internet by a telco or a social media co)
• Motivate and incentivize to use the digital media for day to day activity & tasks (News,
Weather, Government Services, Information Services, Communication, Social, Banking,
Email etc..)
• Build a community to spread and support the change
• Plan, setup and rollout these campaigns are grass root level