Causes of digital divide
According to the World Conference on the Development of Telecommunications and Information the causes of this gap are low standards of living, high tariffs for the use of IT infrastructure in developing countries. Because of the bad economic situation, there aren’t enough possibilities to train good IT-specialists in developing countries. So brain drain occurs. It causes the increase in prices for IT-services and decrease in their usage.
The lack of education in developing countries and inside some groups in one country is another cause of digital divide. Uneducated people are unlikely to be interested in IT. They consider technologies as something difficult and unclear. All above mentioned can lead to a digital divide (World Conference on the Development of Telecommunications, 2002).
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