International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
Year : 2011, Volume : 1, Issue : 1
First page : ( 1) Last page : ( 8)
Print ISSN : 2229-5984. Online ISSN : 2249-5576.

Digital Divide: Causes and Initiatives to Bridge

Kamila Kanchan*

Librarian, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Cooch Behar-736165, West Bengal

*Correspondence to: Dr. Kanchan Kamila, drkanchankamila002@gmail.com

Online published on 16 May, 2017.

Abstract

There are so many divisions existed in the society e.g. gender, master-slave, rich-poor, caste-race-ethnic. Besides these, from the development point of view the world divided into three. developed, developing, and underdeveloped (or 1st World, 2nd World, and 3rd World). Like the above divisions, the new division ‘digital divide’ arises in the world after the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to divide the digitally rich (countries with heavily use of ICT enabled devices/programs/services) and digitally poor i.e. just opposite of the above. The present paper depicts the origin and meaning of ‘digital divide’; causes of ‘digital divide’; and government, non-government and corporate initiatives in India to bridge the ‘digital digital’.

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