The Digital Divide

The digital divide is where people in the UK don't have what most of the population take for granted is not actually affordable to some people. This happens on a global and local scale. either that or some people don't really understand how a computer or the Internet actually work so they tend not to even go near it. This stops a portion of the UK's population from being able to use the website and having the right to air their opinion that everyone else so easily does. The government tries to adhere to this problem by using different methods depending on the County's council. Some counties give special access to computers in their towns library or it has been known that some councils have actually given these people computers to use. Nowadays computers are a standard thing, even something as simple as applying for a job is impossible because most of the time the application form is on the business' website. This goes onto not helping the current economic downturn and unemployment being so high.

Local Scale

 On a local scale above is a map showing the Internet usage in England in 2011. From the diagram you can see that in any one region in England is likely to have around 80% Internet usage. This means 80% of the people in that region has regular access to the Internet and uses a lot. For a well developed country around 20% per region is quite high for people not having access to a computer. This means that people in England still cannot afford to have a computer with access to the Internet. This means if businesses and activities of most organisations in the world are transferring themselves over to the Internet, then that 20% of people per region will not be able to use that organisations services even if they wanted to. Evidently the south of England generally has more access to the Internet then the people in the north, this is due to the lack of employment and wealth in the north of England.

Global Scale

From the diagram above you can see that all of the expected countries have the highest brackets for having computers and Internet usage. There are still some areas in the world that don even have a single computer owned by anyone. Obviously and evidently the undeveloped countries don't have as many computers and as much Internet usage than other countries that are well developed like the USA and UK.

International Telecommunications Union -  http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/connect/
'The overall objective of the Connect CIS is to mobilise the human, financial and technical resources required to support a rapid, region-wide transition to digital infrastructure and services. Also connect the unconnected by the year 2015 '. This is a quote I took from this website. It says it has to sort the financial problems first before it can improve, it also says in the website that it will need financial help if it wants to make advances in the economic struggle. They believe that the digital divide is due to grow due to the fact that 4G Internet has immured. The reason this is likely to cause the digital  divide to grow is because as the people able to pay for 4G the others that don't even have access to Internet. This means the advance will mean the divide of Internet will become quicker so even if the people who don't have it manage to pay for it, there is still a huge divide between 2G and 4G.