Re-Examining the Digital Divide
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digdivide.pdf
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Author(s)
Compaine, Benjamin
Date Issued
September 2000
Abstract
Much media and public policy attention has been attended to a presumed
?Digital Divide.? This refers to those who have access to information tools and the
capability of using information and those who presumably do not. This paper looks at
the forces and trends in the information technologies themselves and the economics of
information. It concludes that the divide at its outset was much the same as many gaps
that have and continue to persist in a capitalistic society. It further concludes that costs
are falling so steeply and ease of use improving so rapidly that market forces already
seem to me eliminating the greatest portion of the divide. Policy-makers may have less
of an issue to deal with in a few years than seemed likely just a few years ago.
Subjects
digital divide
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