What is the Digital Divide, and How can it be solved?

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What is the Digital Divide, and How can it be
solved?
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What is the Digital Divide?

• What does Digital Divide mean?

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What or who is divided

• Gender bias in use of technology
• North vs South
• Why is the world divided between rich and poor?
• Technology does not help everyone
• Technology connectivity does not cost the same
  all over the world

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What are the results of the digital divide?

• Cost of connectivity
• Economic development stunted by lack of people
  trained in technology
• Employment and development
• Cost of technology

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How do we solve the digital divide?

• Satellite technology
• Community networks
• How can kids get access to technology?
• Is owning a computer enough?
• Is it getting worse
• How do we connect to the internet in SA?