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Assignment: - Digital Divide within Communication
Aim
· The advancement of IT has vastly grown since 1969 after the introduction of ARPAnet (Original Single network). With more resources and Money available to Developed and Emerging Countries this has resulted in Lower Developed Countries to fall behind on ICT (Information Communication Technologies).
Objective
· Research the statistical divide between Developed, Emerging and LDC. ...
Scope / Hypothesis
· Excepted results: Mobile Communication Static Line Communication
o Developed Countries will have vast wide use of Mobile and Static Communication due to money and wealth available.
o Emerging Countries slightly less use of Mobile Communication but roughly the same static line communication as developed. ...
Results / Findings
Paragraph taken from a report constructed in March 2002 for the International Telecommunication Union, This paragraph highlights the concern and pinpoints the major concern of the digital divide. ...
Privatization and competition are the order of the day, with a majority of countries
having adopted these policies to advance their telecommunication sector. ... Ten years ago, those countries that had mobile cellular networks or were connected to the Internet were in the minority. ... Encouragingly, the fastest growing nations recently have been the least developed countries (LDCs). ... This is an unmistakable sign that the digital divide is being reduced, albeit at too slow a pace.” (Taken from World Telecommunication Development Report 2002 ITU)
Continued…
One major factor in the speed of development in communication is private sector money being invested into LDC’s. ... Thus resulting in the slow down of investment into up and coming new technology in LDC’s and countries alike.
Approximate Word count = 1282
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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