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The Digital Divide
The Challenge of Technology and Equity Information technology is influencing the way many of us live and work today. We use the Internet to look and apply for jobs, shop, conduct research, make airline reservations, and explore areas of interest. We use email and the Internet to communicate instantaneously with friends and business associates around the world. Computers are commonplace in homes and the workplace.
Although the number of internet users is growing exponentially each year, most of the world’s population does not have access to computers or the Internet. Only 6 percent of the population in developing countries are connected to telephones. Although more than 94 percent of U.S. households have telephones, only 42 percent have personal computers at home and 26 percent have Internet access. The lack of what most of us would consider a basic communications necessity--th
A. Currently, only about 10 percent of all the schools in the United States are not wired for Internet access.
B. Less affluent schools have fewer Internet connections, and minorities as well as women hold fewer computer science degrees.
C. Children and teenagers are the two fastest-growing segments of the population gaining access to the Internet.
D. Internet access is limited by education, income, geographic location, race, and the age and marital status of the head of household.
E. Computer science graduates can earn almost $ 50,000.F. Access to the Internet is one way to encourage equality among diverse groups