Digital Divide: Global Management Perspective - Analysis Report

This report examines the digital divide from a global management perspective, highlighting the disparities in internet access across different regions. It discusses how unequal access to the internet, due to factors like high costs and inadequate infrastructure, affects developing nations and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. The report notes that only a portion of the world's population is connected to the cyber world, and explores the impact of this divide on trade, finance, and the overall development of nations. The report references the role of globalization, which has brought advanced technologies to some nations, but also emphasizes the need to address the digital divide to ensure equitable access to information and opportunities worldwide. This analysis is crucial for understanding the challenges and implications of digital inequality in a globalized world, emphasizing the need for strategies to bridge this gap.

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
PERSPECTIVE

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In the era of Digitalisation, it is seen that there is distinctive digital divide that is present in
the world. Due to several reasons it was seen that people in different regions of the world are
not getting equal access to the internet facilities (Ragnedda & Muschert, 2013). In many
countries the cost of Internet is very high like China while in some nations like the India there
is a slower internet connections. The nations present in Africa due to low income and low
infrastructural development are deprived of internet facilities. Global digital divide is a result
of inappropriate advancements of technology in terms of IT and communication
infrastructure. It can be noticed by the fact that most of the people in the developing nations
are not having the system for accessing the internet facilities. Various efforts of making NET
neutrality a possibility has failed. This can be attributed by the fact that only 38% of the
world’s population is connected to cyber world and the usage of internet in various parts of
the world also varies (Globalisation 101, 2017).
In the process of making the world a global village it is a greater set back. Developing nations
have lagged in terms of adopting the cyber space. This had a greater effect on the income of
the people and has widened the gap between the rich and the poor. A better side of the coin
suggest that due to globalisation many companies have facilitated nations with the advanced
technologies that they originally did not had. Digital divide had the effect on the trade and
finance of the nation which is serious matter of concern for their development.

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REFERENCES
Globalisation 101, (2017) Retrieved from: http://www.globalization101.org/the-international-
digital-divide/
Ragnedda, M., & Muschert, G. W. (2013). The digital divide: The internet and social
inequality in international perspective. (Vol. 73 ed.). Routledge.