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Consequences of digital divide
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Digital divide may cause following consequences: 1) A slow-down in social-economic development. The groups of people or the countries with more access to information improve their position more quickly. Such unequal access results in unfair competition and economic disbalance. 2) Digital divide can lead to misunderstanding between different groups of people. Countries with developed information technologies will acquire new values and lose old ones. For example, music is being created and transferred in digital form. At the same time countries which don’t have developed information technologies, will save previous values and won’t accept new ones. And this can lead to misunderstanding. 3) Digital divide can also become a cause of conflicts and military interventions. On the one hand, the accumulation of information in some countries can lead to creation of information corporations. On the other hand, other countries won’t have any information. And it can bring about conflicts and military interventions. 4) Because of the high cost of connection facilities the cost of information products and services will significantly vary in different regions. So, the same products and services will be cheap in the developed countries and expensive in the developing countries. With the time, the flow of cheap commodities will be concentrated in one part of the world, and consumers who are isolated from this commodity will be concentrated in another part of the world. It can also lead to economic disbalance (Global Strategy Forum, 2007). жүктеу/скачать 2,47 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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