The digital divide

The digital divide

The digital divide has an impact on everyone in the world. Economic prosperity has a large part to determining the prevalence of modern technology. The digital divide means that cities have excellent access to ICT and rural areas do not have good access to ICT. A subsistence economy will be more concerned in survival than ICT. A prosperous developed economy can both afford to devote energy and resources to fund the research and development needed to create digital technology. The developed world has its primary motive for the use of ICT is economic.

It is usually seen as more productive to automate a process by using ICT than hiring expensive staff, it is often reversed in developing nations. One computer in West Africa might cost six years salary, even if the computer is affordable the resulting unemployment might not be.

Economic prosperity also has an underlying effect on a number of factors that increase the divide and a poor economy often has poor technology infrastructure, which makes it harder to put digital technology that would improve its situation. Rich nations can