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The Digital Divide
By: Maureen Griswold, Alex Deronde,
Franklin Gaw, Sarah Ceurvorst, and
Junho Lee
What is the Digital Divide?
• The digital divide is the gap between those
who have access to technology, such as the
internet, and those who have no access or
limited access. It is also about how the
different levels of society have access to
different aspects of technology. This creates
distance between the classes, gender, age,
geography and race.
Gender
Geography
Age
Class
Race
Ways to Help!
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There are projects such as One Laptop per Child and 50x15 that were created to
help solve the digital divide.
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With these projects, OLPC XO-1s are distributed to kids in developing countries.
OLPC XO-1 is an inexpensive laptop that is meant to spread knowledge to those
who would otherwise have difficulty receiving access to technology.
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The CrunchPad is a low cost tablet PC that people are able to perform simple
tasks with.
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Groups concerned with the digital divide: World summit on the Information
Society, Geekcorps, EduVision, Inveneo.
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These groups try to distribute low budget laptops, such as OLPC XO-1,
handhelds, WiFi, and other aspects of technology to various parts of the world
who need it most.
Ways to Help continued…
• Raise awareness in your own community. Let
people know that there is “a need for a reexamination of questions based on
traditional ways of looking at people, their
social dynamics, and their interactions with
technology”.
• Research other ways to help!