Digital divide
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The document discusses how the digital divide impacts social capital, human capital, and knowledge capital. It states that the digital divide reduces access to information and social connections online, negatively impacting social capital. It also claims that a lack of access to digital resources prevents some groups from gaining important skills, reducing their human capital. Finally, it suggests that investing in internet access, implementing digital laws, exposing students to technology, and using technology in schools and businesses can help address issues caused by the digital divide.
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Digital divide
- 2. Social Capital : The networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function efficiently. Human Capital : The skills, knowledge, and experience possessed by their value or cost to an organisation or country. Knowledge Capital : The intangible assets that represents valuable ideas, methods, processes and other intuitive talents that belong to a company.
- 3. DIGITAL DIVIDE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL - The digital divide affects the way people are able to access the internet and the amount of knowledge that they can gain. - It will also reduce the contact between people aver social media, between countries. - Digital divide prevents relationships between social parties and therefore social capital is affected.
- 4. DIGITAL DIVIDE AND HUMAN CAPITAL - The digital divide affects the skills that people can gain because they are not exposed to all the digital media. - Some populations will lack skills and knowledge because of the digital divide, they will therefore lack human capital.
- 5. How Can We Solve These Issues - Invest in providing internet access to remote areas - Implement digital laws - Expose students to digital media - Use technology in schools and businesses that do not have these facilities