The digital divide or information literacy

              The digital divide or information literacy

Q1) define digital divide.

A1) The idea of the "digital divide" refers to the growing gap between the underprivileged members of society, especially the poor, rural, elderly, and handicapped portion of the population who do not have access to computers or the internet; and the wealthy, middle-class, and young people living in urban and suburban areas who have access.

Q2) Identify the main effects of digital divide on society.

A2) 1- A person who doesn't have all the newest gadgets becomes an outcast in society.

2- Older generations face great difficulties connecting with the younger ones, an age group gap is created.

3- These poorer nations are unable to afford the initial start up cost to be able to invest into technology to allow their nation to be able to have and maintain internet access. This puts these countries at a competitive and economic disadvantage

4-  By a country not having internet access, it means that schools are unable to teach IT skills and take advantage of the vast amount of information available on the web.

Q3) Explain a real case study on bridging the digital divide gap.

A3) many organisations have sent many of their employee to courses either in the same country or in a foreign countries to learn more about modern technology. many organisations have sent their employee to workshops to improve their ICT skills. other organisations have sent them to courses paid by the organisation itself for the employee to learn ICT for those who have a little knowledge about it. also sometimes the organisation would allow employee who have a vast knowledge about ICT to help or teach other employee who who aren't good at ICT.