WJEC 1.10 - Legal and Ethical - Digital Divide

What is the digital divide?

• The difference between people who have access to technology and those that don't

• The gap between computers

• The gap between people who use mobile phones

The use of technology to ensure that everybody is able to access resources, regardless of problems such as physical disabilities.

• Digital Divide

• Equality of Access

• Globalization

• Cultural Diversity

The idea that money, language, education, or infrastructure creates a gap between those who have access to information technologies and those who do not.

• Digital Divide

• Equality of Access

• Globalization

• Cultural Diversity

True or False?
People who lack access to the internet have the same opportunities as those who do.

• True
• False

Which of these is an example of a technological change that has created a global community?

• The EU

• The internet

• Uber

• Deliveroo

Ensuring that everyone has affordable access to computing technology and the skills to use it

• Digital inclusion

• Digital divide

• Digital literacy

• Digital equality

The gap between people whose lives are empowered by technology and those who excluded

• Digital inclusion

• Digital divide

• Digital literacy

• Digital equality

What percentage of the world's population live within range of a mobile phone network?

• 57%

• 67%

• 77%

• 97%

What percentage of the world's population have Internet access in 2019?

• 47%

• 57%

• 67%

• 77%

Choose the reasons why technology exclusion is NOT good for society as a whole ...

• Limits employment prospects

• Limits freedom of expression

• Limits economic growth

• Limits opportunities for criminality