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Industrialised Countries: The Global Digital Divide

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The Digital Divide has become something of a buzzword in policy circles, the popular press and academia. (Norris, 2001) categorizes this divide into its three constituent elements: the global divide between advanced industrialised countries and developing countries, the social divide between information rich and information poor within advanced industrialised countries, and the democratic divide between those within the online community who do and do not use digital resources to engage, mobilise and participate in public life. Within each category, Norris and other writers (Wresch, 1996) discuss the divide primarily in 5 terms of access to ICTs, rather than in terms of the information and knowledge which is of value in the context of the information …show more content…

Several influential and comprehensive studies of the global digital divide point to a significant positive relationship between levels of economic development and the global digital divide. For example, a study by (Hargittai, 1999)and another by Rodriguez and Wilson in a World Bank sponsored study (2000) found that the economic wealth of a country measured by per capita GNP was the most important predictor of Internet access.
Yet, the discourse on the digital divide is keen to present the reverse causal association between ICT and economic conditions. Economic analyses portray ICT as a significant factor of growth in the context of modern competitive economies; consequently the lack of ICT is an inhibiting factor for economic …show more content…

The 2001 UNDP report (2001) attempts to take a broader perspective of the significance of ICT by associating it with Sen’s notion of development in terms of human capabilities (Sen, 1999),but its analysis fails to avoid the unfounded technocratic assumptions on ICT as means for improvements in critical social domains such as education or health. Norris’ (2001) analysis is more thought provoking, showing that many countries that are relatively affluent display lower than average internet penetration rates like certain oil-rich countries in the Middle East as well as SE Asian

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