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 text from the internet.
Gender divide: In statistics it has shown that female in developing countries use less internet than the male in developing countries since it goes with the culture of men being superior than women that has gone by generations and generations which it would be difficult to stop because women feel inferior to even protest against their countrymen. Some women in these developing countries don't allow women to have an education which they can't use the internet.
Skills divide: Having a digital literacy can be an opportunity to have knowledge about the technology especially computers. Unfortunately not everyone has that kind of skills because of their disadvantaged backgrounds which these skills will be difficult to be exposed.
Universal access divide: There those digital citizens who suffer from physical disability and they may have skills but they are unable to move or control technology of the computer in order for them to have access of what they want on the computer or other technologies.
Referencing:
DIGCS 5110: Digital Citizenship Module Manual. The Independent Institute of Education: First Edition 2015.
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 text from the internet.
Gender divide: In statistics it has shown that female in developing countries use less internet than the male in developing countries since it goes with the culture of men being superior than women that has gone by generations and generations which it would be difficult to stop because women feel inferior to even protest against their countrymen. Some women in these developing countries don't allow women to have an education which they can't use the internet.
Skills divide: Having a digital literacy can be an opportunity to have knowledge about the technology especially computers. Unfortunately not everyone has that kind of skills because of their disadvantaged backgrounds which these skills will be difficult to be exposed.
Universal access divide: There those digital citizens who suffer from physical disability and they may have skills but they are unable to move or control technology of the computer in order for them to have access of what they want on the computer or other technologies.
Referencing:
DIGCS 5110: Digital Citizenship Module Manual. The Independent Institute of Education: First Edition 2015.
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