Global Digital Divide: Analyzing Perspectives and Challenges

This report provides an analysis of the global digital divide, focusing on the widening gap between developed and developing countries in terms of technology access and information communication systems. It argues that the digital divide is difficult to bridge, highlighting key factors such as poverty, unequal access to services like education, employment opportunities, and restrictions on internet access. The report examines how these factors contribute to the technological lag experienced by developing countries, leading to a significant disparity in awareness and adoption of new technologies. The conclusion emphasizes the need for developed countries to promote equal distribution of education and share technological advancements with less developed countries to help bridge the divide and to increase equal employment opportunities in developing countries.

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE
Given the rapid advancements in technology in developed countries and fast pace of
globalization, it is not possible to bridge the global digital divide.
I strongly agree with the statement, reasons being the following,
Digital divide is the technological gap between the developed countries and the less developed or
the developing countries in terms of modern internet access through broadband, a difference in
modern information communication systems between developed and developing regions across
the world. Global digital divide is the global differences in modern computing information
system like the internet between the developed and the developing countries.
Poverty- most developed countries around the world have a stable income hence an easy access
to modern technological changes in communication, they are always up to date in change in
technology. Poverty leads to lack of time in internet access or equally the access to
communication systems (Ragnedda & Muschert, 2013).
Inequality access to services offered in the internet (education) - in developed countries
almost every person has access to services offered in the internet like advanced education. This
leads to people securing good jobs hence a good income, this makes them keep up with the trend
in technology. People in the developing countries lack proper access to online services like
education hence a low income due to lack of jobs
Employment- developed countries have a stable flow in employment opportunities hence
providing its people with higher chances of keeping up with the daily change and advancement
in technology. Most developing countries have low employment opportunities due to various

factors like lack of education or access to educational facilities hence a reduced urge to keep up
with the change in information communication systems (Zhang, 2013).
Restriction of internet access in some areas of the world- due to a rise in cyber terrorism, this
has resulted to the restriction of internet access in some countries, this has caused a lag in
technology. Most developed countries have no restriction to internet access, hence the
technological gap becomes hard to bridge (Ragnedda & Muschert, 2013).
Awareness- Most developed countries come up with the new inventions in technological change
hence, they are always aware of a change in communication system. The developing countries
mostly depend on inventions made by the developed countries hence they are dependent on the
awareness of the developed countries which comes after a trend has passed hence the lag behind,
making the technological gap bigger and impossible to bridge (Zhang, 2013).
In conclusion, the developed countries should find a way to equally distribute services like
education around the world and share any new invention in time with the less developed
countries to be able to bridge the digital divide. Equal employment opportunities should be put
up in the developing countries.
REFERENCES
Ragnedda, M., & Muschert, G. W. (2013). The digital divide: The internet and social inequality in
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Zhang, X. (2013). Income disparity and digital divide: The internet consumption Model and cross-country
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