Digital Divide

Community Science and Technology-its Meaning to Potential Requirement: With Posibilities of Msc-cst (ist) for Removing Digital Divide, the Law and other Social Sciences

Community Science and technology (CST) is an emerging concept and side by side a broader domain that deals with various aspects of community and societal development. Practically Community science and Technology may be treated as subject responsible and dedicated for community and society development. This is the domain which is talks about Science and Technology and its development for societal and community. On other way Community Science and technology (CST) may be express as a domain of Science, Technology, and Engineering responsible for social and community development. . Information Science is an interdisciplinary domain and responsible for information vis-à-vis technological solution with social science perspective; and thus the domain may be treated as a domain of Community or Social Touch or more clearly a domain of Community Science and Technology.[1]

Digital Divide, the Law and other Social Sciences

Since 1991 when the the World Wide Web (WWW) was first made available to the public, it has revolutionized the ways the global community engages each other economically, politically, and socially. Its impact has been historically unprecedented. While the availability of and access to the WWW appears to be ubiquitous, it is not. The expansion of this marvelous Information Communication Technology (ICT) has not penetrated certain areas of the world resulting in a “digital divide.” this topic discusses this digital divide. It first defines the term and then it moves to discuss the origins of the term. From there, the chapter moves to present concrete evidence of how the digital divide has negatively impacted the global community. Finally, it names and evaluates the efforts of different organizations and agencies to resolve the digital divide. It concludes with a prospectus on the future challenges of information communication technology vis-à-vis the digital divide.[1]

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Notes and References

1. Patrick Flanagan, “Digital Divide” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

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Notes and References

1. Prantosh Paul, Anil Bhuimali, “Community Science and Technology-Its Meaning to Potential Requirement: with Posibilities of MSc-CST (IST) for removing Digital Divide” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

Hierarchical Display of Digital divide

Education And Communications > Information and information processing > Information policy > Access to information
Social Questions > Social framework > Social structure > Social inequality
Production, Technology And Research > Technology and technical regulations > Technology > Technological change

Digital divide

Concept of Digital divide

See the dictionary definition of Digital divide.

Characteristics of Digital divide

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Translation of Digital divide

• Spanish: Retraso digital
• French: Fossé numérique
• German: Digitale Kluft
• Italian: Divario digitale
• Portuguese: Fosso digital
• Polish: Luka cyfrowa

Thesaurus of Digital divide

Education And Communications > Information and information processing > Information policy > Access to information > Digital divide
Social Questions > Social framework > Social structure > Social inequality > Digital divide
Production, Technology And Research > Technology and technical regulations > Technology > Technological change > Digital divide

See also

• Social inequality
• Technological change

• Electronic divide