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digital divide

Explore the digital divide within countries and globally, addressing disparities in connectivity, characteristics, intensity, purpose, and infrastructure. Learn how to overcome the digital gap and promote effective internet use.

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  1. digital divide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  2. Digital divide • The divide within countries (such as the digital divide in the United States) can refer to inequalities between individuals, households, businesses, and geographic areas at different socioeconomic and other demographic levels, while the divide between countries is referred to as the global digital divide, which designates nations as the units of analysis and examines the gap between developing and developed countries on an international scale. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  3. Digital divide - Approaches • Conceptualization of the digital divide is often as follows: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  4. Digital divide - Approaches • Subjects of connectivity, or who connects: individuals, organizations, enterprises, schools, hospitals, countries, etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  5. Digital divide - Approaches • Characteristics of connectivity, or which attributes: demographic and socio-economic variables, such as income, education, age, geographic location, etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  6. Digital divide - Approaches • Intensity of connectivity, or how sophisticated the usage: mere access, retrieval, interactivity, innovative contributions. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  7. Digital divide - Approaches • Purpose of connectivity, or why individuals and their cohorts are (not) connecting: reasons individuals are and are not online and uses of the Internet and information and communications technologies ("ICTs"). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  8. Digital divide - Approaches • In short, the desired impact and "the end justifies the definition" of the digital divide. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  9. Digital divide - Explanatory variables • Gender was previously thought to provide an explanation for the digital divide, many thinking ICT were male gendered, but controlled statistical analysis has shown that income, education and employment act as confounding variables and that women with the same level of income, education and employment actually embrace ICT more than men (see Women and ICT4D) ). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  10. Digital divide - Infrastructure • The infrastructure by which individuals, households, businesses, and communities connect to the Internet address the physical mediums that people use to connect to the Internet such as desktop computers, laptops, basic mobile phones or smart phones, iPods or other MP3 players, Xboxes or PlayStations, electronic books readers, and tablets such as iPads. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  11. Digital divide - Location • Internet connectivity can be utilized at a variety of locations such as homes, offices, schools, libraries, public spaces, Internet cafe and others. There are also varying levels of connectivity in rural, suburban, and urban areas. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  12. Digital divide - Applications • Common Sense Media, a nonprofit group based in San Francisco, surveyed almost 1,400 parents and reported in 2011 that 47 percent of families with incomes more than $75,000 had downloaded apps for their children, while only 14 percent of families earning less than $30,000 had done so. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  13. Digital divide - Overcoming the digital divide • Therefore, access is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for overcoming the digital divide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  14. Digital divide - Overcoming the digital divide • Furthermore, even though individuals might be capable of accessing the Internet, many are thwarted by barriers to entry such as a lack of means to infrastructure or the inability to comprehend the information that the Internet provides https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  15. Digital divide - Overcoming the digital divide • The United Nations is aiming to raise awareness of the divide by way of the World Information Society Day which has taken place yearly since May 17, 2001. It also sets up the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Task Force in November 2001. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  16. Digital divide - Overcoming the digital divide • While this dichotomy does exist, black communities are using the internet, especially websites like Tumblr and Twitter, to narrow the gap of the digital divide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  17. Digital divide - Effective use • Gurstein has also extended the discussion of the digital divide to include issues around access to and the use of "open data" and coined the term "data divide" to refer to this issue area. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  18. Digital divide - Social capital • Once an individual is connected, Internet connectivity and ICTs can enhance his or her future social and cultural capital https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  19. Digital divide - Second-level digital divide • Web 2.0 technologies like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Blogs enable users to participate online and create content without having to understand how the technology actually works, leading to an ever increasing digital divide between those who have the skills and understanding to interact more fully with the technology and those who are passive consumers of it https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  20. Digital divide - Second-level digital divide • Additionally, there is evidence to support the existence of the second-level digital divide at the K-12 level based on how educators' use technology for instruction https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  21. Digital divide - The knowledge divide • Since gender, age, racial, income, and educational gaps in the digital divide have lessened compared to past levels, some researchers suggest that the digital divide is shifting from a gap in access and connectivity to ICTs to a knowledge divide. A knowledge divide concerning technology presents the possibility that the gap has moved beyond access and having the resources to connect to ICTs to interpreting and understanding information presented once connected. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  22. Internet access - Digital Divide • Despite its tremendous growth, Internet access is not distributed equally within or between countries. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  23. Internet access - Digital Divide • The gap between people with Internet access and those without is one of many aspects of the digital divide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  24. Internet access - Digital Divide • Government policies play a tremendous role in bringing Internet access to or limiting access for underserved groups, regions, and countries https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  25. Internet access - Digital Divide • The Obama administration has continued this commitment to narrowing the digital divide through the use of stimulus funding https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  26. Internet access - Digital Divide • Access to computers is a dominant factor in determining the level of Internet access. In 2011, in developing countries, 25% of households had a computer and 20% had Internet access, while in developed countries the figures were 74% of households had a computer and 71% had Internet access. When buying computers was legalized in Cuba in 2007, the private ownership of computers soared (there were 630,000 computers available on the island in 2008, a 23% increase over 2007). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  27. Internet access - Digital Divide • To promote economic development and a reduction of the digital divide, national broadband plans have been and are being developed to increase the availability of affordable high-speed Internet access throughout the world. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  28. Educational technology - Digital Divide • In most cases, this form of the digital divide means that those who have access to a computer and the Internet are considered a digital have, while on the other hand, those who do not are considered a digital have not https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  29. Educational technology - Digital Divide • This form of the digital divide is yet another barrier because it also goes hand-in-hand with the resources the schools have and the training teachers receive https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  30. Educational technology - Digital Divide • The generational digital divide is a common barrier because it challenges teachers to keep up with the ever-changing technology in the classroom https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  31. History of the Internet - Global digital divide • While developed countries with technological infrastructures were joining the Internet, developing countries began to experience a digital divide#Global digital divide|digital divide separating them from the Internet. On an essentially continental basis, they are building organizations for Internet resource administration and sharing operational experience, as more and more transmission facilities go into place. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  32. Digital literacy - The digital divide • Digital literacy and digital access have become increasingly important competitive differentiators. Bridging the economic and developmental divides is in large measure a matter of increasing digital literacy and access for peoples who have been left out of the information and communications technology (ICT) revolutions. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  33. Digital literacy - The digital divide • Scholar Howard Besser contends that the digital divide is more than just a gap between those who have access to technology and those who don’t. This issue encompasses aspects such as information literacy, appropriateness of content, and access to content. Beyond access, a digital divide exists between those who apply critical thinking to technology or not, those who speak English or not, and those who create digital content or merely consume it. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  34. Digital literacy - The digital divide • Research published in 2012 found that the digital divide, as defined by access to information technology, does not exist amongst youth in the United States.Cohen, C https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  35. Digital literacy - The digital divide • Community Informatics overlaps to a considerable degree with digital literacy by being concerned with ensuring the opportunity not only for ICT access at the community level but also, according to Michael Gurstein, that the means for the effective use of ICTs for community betterment and empowerment are available. Digital literacy is of course, one of the significant elements in this process. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  36. Digital literacy - The digital divide • The United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) seeks to address this set of issues at an international and global level. Many organizations (e.g. Per Scholas|Per Scholas for underserved communities in the United States and [http://interconnection.org/ InterConnection] for underserved communities around the world as well as the U.S.) focus on addressing this concern at national, local and community levels. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  37. Digital Divide • From: http://www.apdip.net/publications/iespprimers/eprimer-egov.pdf the divide between countries is referred to as the 'global digital divide', which designates nations as the units of analysis and examines the gap between developing and developed countries on an international scale. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  38. Digital Divide - Approaches • [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2011.06.012 The end justifies the definition: The manifold outlooks on the digital divide and their practical usefulness for policy-making] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  39. Digital Divide - Approaches • # Subjects of connectivity, or 'who' connects: individuals, organizations, enterprises, schools, hospitals, countries, etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  40. Digital Divide - Approaches • # Characteristics of connectivity, or 'which' attributes: demographic and socio-economic variables, such as income, education, age, geographic location, etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  41. Digital Divide - Approaches • # Intensity of connectivity, or 'how' sophisticated the usage: mere access, retrieval, interactivity, innovative contributions. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  42. Digital Divide - Approaches • # Purpose of connectivity, or 'why' individuals and their cohorts are (not) connecting: reasons individuals are and are not online and uses of the Internet and Information and communications technology|information and communications technologies (ICTs). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  43. Digital Divide - Approaches • # Dynamics of evolution, or 'whether' the gap of concern would increase or decrease in the future, 'when' the gap of concern would be maximized. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  44. Digital Divide - Approaches • Information Technologies and International Development, 6 Special Edition, 53–55 In short, the desired impact and the end justifies the definition of the digital divide. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  45. Digital Divide - Explanatory variables • Gender was previously thought to provide an explanation for the digital divide, many thinking ICT were male gendered, but controlled statistical analysis has shown that income, education and employment act as confounding variables and that women with the same level of income, education and employment actually embrace ICT more than men (see ICT4D#Women and ICT4D|Women and ICT4D) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2011.07.001 Digital gender divide or technologically empowered women in developing countries? A typical case of lies, damned lies, and statistics ], Martin Hilbert (2011), Women’s Studies International Forum, 34(6), 479-489; free access to the study here: martinhilbert.net/DigitalGenderDivide.pdf). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  46. Digital Divide - Overcoming the digital divide • The United Nations is aiming to raise awareness of the divide by way of the World Information Society Day which has taken place yearly since May 17, 2001.[http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/in-focus-articles/ United Nations Educational] UNDay It also sets up the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Task Force in November 2001.[http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/dev2353.doc.htm UN Information and Communication Technologies (ITC) Task Force Launched Today at Headquarters], Press Release, United Nations (New York), 20 November 2001 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  47. Digital Divide - Overcoming the digital divide • While this dichotomy does exist, black communities are using the internet, especially websites like Tumblr and Twitter, to narrow the gap of the digital divide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  48. Digital Divide - Effective use • Gurstein has also extended the discussion of the digital divide to include issues around access to and the use of open data and coined the term data divide to refer to this issue area. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  49. Digital Divide - Second-level digital divide • (2008) Literature Review: Understanding the second-level digital divide papers by Teresa Correa https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

  50. Digital Divide - Second-level digital divide • K-12 Teachers: Technology Use and the Second Level Digital Divide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-digital-divide-toolkit.html

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