The expression "digital divide" refers to the existing gap
between those who can use new digital technologies and those who
can’t. This is a key issue of today’s society, since it also
provokes a distinction between those who can access certain
information and those who are unable to do so. Image credit: MIT
Media Lab's $100 Laptop for Third World Children Some experts
and researchers consider the digital divide to be merely an
economic problem that affects poor countries; although the
greatest part of these technologies is manufactured in
developing countries, those ones who can afford them lack the
necessary literacy and knowledge of how to use them. However,
identifying the problem exclusively in the economic condition
would result inappropriate: the digital divide expresses itself
also in the impossibility to use digital technologies within a
considerable percentage of the industrialized countries
population. This means that even when people can afford buying a
computer or a mobile phone, they are not aut