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Harold Tuck - Avasant Distinguished Fellow and Former CIO for the County of San Diego
Aug 2013
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Digital Divide- What are we talking about?
Access to technology is access to knowledge. No nation can prosper with inadequate access and familiarity about it, by its citizen. An inequitable distribution of digital resources is a mammoth hindrance to a nation's inclusive growth plans. The US Department of Commerce in all its wisdom recognized this early and started as far back as 1995 to take a closer look at the disparities in access to telephone and computer use by its citizens."Falling through the Net: A survey of the "Have Nots" in Rural and Urban America", a report produced by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) gained new insights about the "information disadvantaged", with a view to empower them in the future. One of their observations was the most enthusiastic users of on-line services were from the most disadvantaged groups. Low income, minority, young and less educated computer households engaged actively in searching for employment, taking educational classes and accessing government reports, online. The concept of digital divide started off by being defined as this disparity in internet access between rural and urban areas of the United States of America.
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