Chapter 26: The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future 

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What I expect to learn?

I expect to learn about The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future

Quote:

“The digital divide is not any one particular gap between rich and poor, local and global, but rather includes a variety of gaps believed to bear on the world inequitable distribution of resources.”

Review:

The digital divide is not any one particular gap between rich and poor, local and global, but rather includes a variety of gaps believed to bear on the world inequitable distribution of resources. Similar gaps exist between the affluent developed world and the impoverished developing world. The moral basis for the case for affluent nations to eliminate the digital divide is grounded in the idea that nations and people with far more than they need to satisfy basic needs have a moral obligation to redistribute some of their wealth, at the very least, to nations and people in life-threatening or absolute poverty. Some have argued that whatever the “digital divide” may mean, it does not deserve aspecial place either in our terminology or even in our scientific and political agenda. The “digital divide,” which is a new term on its own “right,” occupying a central component of the global lingua franca for research on the Internet.

What I Learned?

• ·        Digital divide

Integrative Question:

1. What is digital divide?
2. Where does gap exist?
3. What is the moral basis?
4. What does they argue about digital divide?
5. What is the concluding part of the chapter?

Discussion:

1. What is digital divide?

The digital divide is not any one particular gap between rich and poor, local and

global, but rather includes a variety of gaps believed to bear on the world inequitable distribution of resources.

1. Where does gap exist?

Similar gaps exist between the affluent developed world and the impoverished

developing world.

1. What is the moral basis?

The moral basis for the case for affluent nations to eliminate the digital divide is

grounded in the idea that nations and people with far more than they need to satisfy

basic needs have a moral obligation to redistribute some of their wealth, at the very

least, to nations and people in life-threatening or absolute poverty.

1. What does they argue about digital divide?

   Some have argued that whatever the “digital divide” may mean, it does not deserve a

special place either in our terminology or even in our scientific and political agenda.

1. What is the concluding part of the chapter?

The “digital divide,” which is a new term on its own “right,” occupying a central

component of the global lingua franca for research on the Internet.