Bridging the digital divide: success depends on content provider and application developer involvement [point of view]
Andrew Lappalainen, Catherine Rosenberg · Proceedings of the IEEE · 2020
Global connectivity is at an all-time high, and more users than ever before are participating in the online ecosystem. Despite this exciting phenomenon, opportunities to access the online world are not shared equally among the global population. Socioeconomic, political, and geographic factors all play roles in determining the extent to which one can be an online participant [1]. This resultant digital divide creates a social disparity between those who have reliable access to online content and can take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer and those who do not and miss out on those opportunities [2].