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Q.1.4 Create a LinkedIn account and subscribe to two at least 2 groups that are relevant to your field of study. Add a link of your profile to your blog.

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Q.1.3 Organisations such as Facebook, Airbnb and Uber have harnessed social capital to grow their market shares and become major disruptive forces in their industries. Define and explain how a digital citizen can build and enhance social capital.

1. Read and respond:  You must seek for blogs and articles online that can be seen by your users or viewers. Be aware and comment constantly when they need your valid answers. 2.Start your own blog: You must have enough information for your readers. In order to get enough information is getting through facebook and twitter. Instagram can be your example for your picture information on your blog. 3. You must take part in conversations on LinkedIn and join groups that are appropriate for you to gain knowledge and sharing your own information. 4. Start useful topics on twitter 5. Post useful information on facebook 6. Use social media as a way to stay in contact and check out their connection and expand your network of reputation. 7. Ask your potential customers if they can keep contact with them through LinkedIn, facebook and twitter. 8. You must participate with local social media organizations so that your reputation and your connection will increase. http://...

Q.1.2 Facebook in a quest to mitigate the effects of infrastructure and the digital divide have launched Project Aquila. The problem of infrastructure is prevalent in Africa. Discuss the implication of all the different forms of the digital divide.

Socio economic divide: The main issue is that people from low income families have no access to modern technologies. This division of access between the high and low income families is called digital divide.  It is also associated with a gap between developed countries and developing countries. Divide infrastructure: In developed countries the electricity is more accessible and it stays longer. In developing countries there is always problems of electricity being short such as low shedding in South Africa and having restrictions of using electricity which it does not happen in developed countries. People from the rural areas have can't access to the internet with their mobile cellphone because of the lack of network that goes with the electricity. Divide in content: English dominates websites and the internet sites which is trouble for the speakers who don't have English as their mother tongue or as their first language who will have a lack of understand the statement or te...