Digital Divide

Digital Divide is the term used to describe the uneven distribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in society. The digital divide encompasses differences in both access (first-level digital divide) and usage (second-level digital divide) of computers and the Internet between
(1) industrialized and developing countries (global divide),
(2) various socioeconomic groups within single nation-states (social divide), and
(3) different kinds of users with regard to their political engagement on the Internet (democratic divide).
In general, those differences are believed to reinforce social inequalities and to cause a persisting information or knowledge gap amid those people with access to and using the new media (“haves”) and those people without (“have-nots”).