Student Name: Wafa AlharthiStudent ID: 17274635

The Digital Divide issue

Outline• Introduction• Definition of Digital Divide• Digital Divide and the Society• Employment and Salary

Options• Health and the Related Issues• Origin and Key Factors• Literacy Rates• Gender, Age and Culture• Location

• Financial Status• Solutions• Training skills• Online access options• Relevance• Life standards

improvement• Government role• Conclusion• Reference List

Introduction

brief introduction about the Information and Communication Technologies all over the world and in Australia Specifically.

What is the definition Digital Divide ?

• Applied to the environment of an education establishment, the digital divine may denote the inequality between the students representing different tiers of society (Soar, Schwinder & Tsang, 2010).

Digital Divide and the Society

Though the link between technology and social interactions may seem rather feeble, the Digital Divide has literally split the society apart, which is especially evident in the setting of a public school.

The Impact of Technology on Employment and Salary Options

The introduction of modern technologies into the lives of ordinary people has contributed to bringing the unemployment rates down to an impressive degree.

Another impact on the required skills of working

The introduction of modern technologies into the business world has also triggered the necessity for candidates to acquire new skills, particularly, the skills of working with new technologies.

Hence, technologies split employees :into

Poor• who are incapable of

acquiring the desired skills and knowledge.

Rich• who have modern

technology for training new skills at their disposal.

Another impact of digital divide on health and the Related Issues

The patients, who cannot access the latest information concerning healthcare services via the Internet, may fail to get the assistance that they need to recover.

The roots of the digital divide phenomenon

Income

Education

low performance rates Skills acquired

fewer opportunities for excelling in their

academic performance

The rates of people’s literacy

The amount of people speaking English as their second language, one will find out that they make around 40% of the Internet users and only 5% of the entire world.

Digital Divide and Diversity

Age:the older a person is, the harder it becomes for them to train new skills, especially related to the use of the latest technology.

Culture

The culture issue has shaped the present day image of a user of modern technology greatly.

Gender

Considered to be a side effect of culture reinforcement, the notorious gender gap plays a major part in the creation and a rapid increase in the digital divide.

LocationThe residents of urban areas are considered to be more advanced in terms of usage of new technologies by default.

Financial Status

The income rate is doubtlessly an important factor in the creation of the

Digital Divide.

Disability

People with physical disabilities or mental impairments face a range of challenges when using new technologies.

Solutions for Digital Divide issue in Australia

• Education issues and the Digital Divide.• Helping students.• Encouraging teachers.• A range of programs have been created.

Programs

• EDUCASE should be mentioned as a very successful program for addressing the Digital Divide in schools, colleges and other education establishments.

ProgramsFUSE is another endeavor of the Australian education authorities.

Other helpful programs

Another solution: Training skills

Helping students train their skills for using modern media.

Another solution : Online access options

Opening the access to new technologies is the first and the most important step.

Another solution : Relevance

The relevance of the study to the improvement of the current Australian standards of living.

Another solution: Life standards improvement

The quality of life standards should be upgraded.

The role government

• Promoting the significance of education among students.

• Reducing the taxation rates in the realm of education.

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Reference List• EDUCASE (2014). Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/• Digital Divide – Holding Back Disadvantages Kids (Crikey):

http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/09/the-digital-divide-holding-back-disadvantaged-kids/

• Taking ITGlobal: http://issues.tigweb.org/technology• Ideas Lab (Broadmeadows Victoria): http://www.ideaslab.edu.au/• FUSE (2014). Retrieved from https://

fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/Teacher.aspx• Marshall, S., Taylor, W. & Yu, X. X. (2003). Closing the Digital Divide:

Transforming regional economies and communities with information technology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

• Soar, J., Schwinder, R. & Tsang, P. (2010). Intelligent technologies for bridging the grey digital divide. Hershey, NY: IDI.

• Digital Divide research article: McLaren, J., & Zappala, G. (2002). The 'digital divide' among financially disadvantaged families in Australia. First Monday, 7(11). Retrieved 31 January, 2013, from http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1003/924