Unit 1: Activity on the digital divide.

After reading through pages 38-41 I can go over some of the reasons why the digital divide exists, firstly the economic factor plays a large part in this, most countries affected by the digital divide are poor, they simply aren't able to afford modern day technology such as computers and phones, and because of this, businesses aren't willing to supply the countries with Internet as they will not make a profit from doing so, which means even the most fortunate are still not able to access the Internet, even if they own a computer. This is mainly a problem because Internet prices rarely go down, unlike dated technology, so the most significant factor in modern technology is inaccessible to these countries.

Another reason is the fact that people in some countries are extremely inexperienced and are unable to work with new technology and refuse to have it become part of their life, once again this will take place mainly in third world countries and less developed countries, as people have lived without technology for there whole lives. Technology proves confusing and frustrating for a lot of these people, and therefore they are less likely to accept it in their country. This is also relevant for countries that don't allow certain technologies, countries such as North Korea only allow technology as long as people aren't able to connect to the Internet with it, this is because freedom of information doesn't exist in North Korea and because the Internet is a place where people are allowed to post pretty much anything with little consequence, as this is against North Korea's government, Internet is not allowed in this country.

 Another issue to take into account is that some countries have a high natural disaster rate or are trying to recover from a recent disaster that has occurred, the reason this is a problem is because the country will be more focused on resolving these problems and spending money on fixing their country rather than spending money on new technology, sometimes in these countries Internet is unavailable to many people as Internet providers are reluctant to set up stations in the country in fear that they will be damaged by other disasters that are likely to happen is such countries.

So after reviewing some of these reasons I believe that the biggest reason that the digital divide exists is due to the reason that technology is very expensive and is getting even more expensive depending on how advanced it is, many countries aren't rich enough to afford such things, another reason would be that some people living in third world countries aren't willing to accept such technology as it proves as confusing and complected as they have had no past experience, although this isn't as big of a problem but still results in some countries not implementing technology or Internet due to the lack of demand from the people, this could be easily resolved however by teaching people in these countries who could then teach others, this will mean that people are more accepting of new technology and so if the country is financially capable then they are more likely to introduce new technology, helping to bridge the digital divide.