This presentation is to raise awareness on the ramifications of Digital Divide and suggest ways in which government can help solve these issues.

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2.  The term used for the gap between demographics and
regions that have access to modern information and
communications technology, and those that do not include
the telephone, television, personal computers and social
media or the internet.
 Also known as the type of technology that do not need to be
posted or commented on but rather has a social impact,
human impact and knowledge capital impact.

3.  A Socio-economic Divide
 A Divide in infrastructure
 A Divide in Content
 A Gender Divide
 A Skills Divide
 The Universal Access Divide

4.  Social Capital: the networks of relationships among people who
live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to
function effectively.
 Human Capital: the skills, knowledge, and experience possessed
by an individual or population, viewed in terms of their value or
cost to an organization or country.
 Knowledge capital: the tangible asset represents valuable ideas,
methods, processes and other intuitive talents that belong to a
company.

5. An economic and socio-logical combined total measure of a persons work
experience.
 Social Capital Impact: a persons position in a business
determines they status in a community as the community
determines how they live in every day life situation only
seeing that if one lives in a poor or wealthy society.
 Human Capital Impact:The collective data of social
networks, how social networks impact the community .
The first issue of the ability to access in general, data and
information is critical.

6.  Divide is about having access to internet and technology,
social capital is how people use the internet.
 The role of social capital in narrowing the digital divides has
been frequently mentioned and examined how various types
of social capital may affect people's access and use of the
Internet.

7.  Divide is about how the society uses the internet.
 Knowledge is how well they know the site that is being used
and this has a relationship because without the knowledge of
technology the person using the site will not know how to
access the internet.

8.  Human Capital refers to the knowledge, skill sets and motivation that people have, which provide economic
value.
 Human capital realizes that not everyone has the same skill sets or knowledge and that quality of work can be
improved by investing in people's education.
 Human capital is directly related to economic growth.
 The relationship can be measured by how much is invested into people's educations.

9.  The government will make sure that all families will be provided
with low- income if they own a personal computer.
 The government’s latest attempt to bridge the digital divide
between those with access to technology and those without.
 If the government focuses on young people it will also help as they
do not have much knowledge about digital divide. Getting the
young generation online early means they will never go back, and
they can also be used as an educational tool by their parents.
 The government has invested money in schools since 1997 for
children that have InformationTechnology interests.

10.  Busisiwe Maseko(2016).Impacts of digital divide on social
capital Digital
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