A Closer Look at the Digital Divide

  • By James Andrew Lewis
    May 1, 2001

    "Digital divide" can mean several things, but its initial meaning was that access to the Internet and all the dot-com wonders it brings is being denied to certain sectors of U.S. society. When the divide was first discovered, it was described as "one of [the United States'] leading economic and civil rights issues," the United States needed to "take concrete steps to redress the gap between the information haves and have nots." A leading Web site on the digital divide states that "entire communities are being excluded from opportunities of the digital economy." A closer look at Internet access suggests, however, that the issues of concern for the digital divide may be somewhat different.  

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    Technology
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A Closer Look at the Digital Divide
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