Effectively Bridging the Digital Divide

Technology touches everyone, everywhere, and I want to be part of that.

With the advent of the 21st century, the emerging features of the new economy can be seen everywhere. The innovations made possible by Information and Communication Technology, are transforming the ways in which economies, and the people within them, are working are at the heart of these changes. ICT has become one of the major drivers of growth. But economic growth is as important as must be promoted in a team with social and democratic objectives, especially in tackling exclusion. 

The significance of information and communication technology to both economic and social development explains the priority of bridging that has come to be known as the digital divide. 

In the 21st century education and learning become the lifeblood. knowledge societies and information and communication technology have become an integral part of today’s world. The gaps that define the learning digital divide become as crucial as the more obvious gaps in access to the technology itself.

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Digital Divide

Digital divide refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology, without any restricted access. Basically, this technology can include telephone, television, personal computers and the Internet.

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Digital divide:

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The Digital Divide: Where We Are

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Bridging the digital divide through governance:

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Stages of digital divide:

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Examples of the digital divide:

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Top 10 nation bridging the digital divide:

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Bridging Digital Divide 

Basically, bridging the Digital Divide is a new model of engagement formulated to encourage tenants use of digital technology and the Internet. There are various organisations fighting hard to narrow the digital divide.

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How to bridge the digital divide:

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Lessons in bridging the digital divide:

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Bridging digital divide through coding:

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Bridging digital divide:

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Importance of Bridging Digital Divide

The digital divide is used to cover a wide range of social differences in access to and use of digital equipment and services, most notably personal computers, and the ability to access the internet in terms of both physical connection and facility to use them.

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The Importance of Bridging the Digital Divide:

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Why digital divide is important:

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Bridging the Digital Divide

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