Factors creating the digital divide

Economic prosperity plays a huge roll in society demonstrating the provlence of modern technologies. For example a less developed country would be more concerned with surviving as a appose to ICT. A more developed country would have the resources to research and fund the use of ICT. In the developed world ICT is seen as a means of aiding the way we live and benifitting us. It izs usually used in the place of work as a cheaper way of employing staff.
This is often the opposite in developing nations with labour being cheap and computer technology being very expensive. A poor economy often has poor technological infrastructure that means that it s harder to put in place the ICT advances needed to improve the situation. Rich natons can easily bridge situations often because of the technology and money that they have allows them to do so.

Another factor creating the digital divide is in less developed countries there isn't any electricity supply and if there is one it is expensive and unreliable of which many people cannot afford. Even large companies expect blackouts regually.

Many countries like India have access to computers and technology. Cities have regualar access which is used in school for education and in the work place for help in buisness and employment. Moblile technology and multimedia entertainment is also used by the fortunate. They are able to use it to benefit them in similar ways to how we do to aid our learning and to make it more efficent. The only differences that occur compared to MEDC's like the UK for example are that the speed of the technology are not so advanced; they don't have broadband access. Technology like this is only found in cities as the more rural areas are being developed.

The technology development in less economically developed countries comes largely from charities from more economically developed countries. Problems only begin to occur when charities try to fund different developments or different aspects of the development. This results in unfinished projects that don't fulfil there potential and in some cases technology that doesn't have much use. When this kind of situation arises the size of the digital divide grows.

In areas such as the North and the Sub-Saharan of Africa and the Middle East where wars have taken place there are negative effects on the development of technology as the countries main focus turns to the war and protecting it's country.

In some areas if there is a very small population that is rich and holds alot of the countries wealth they can use there benefitting position to help others. They have the potential to bring in new technologies and transform lives. Sometimes situations like this can mean that a large area can benefit helping close the digital divide between the more economically developed countries.

The geographical situation of an area can also impact on how developed digitally an area is. For example if an area is particually mountianous recieving signals is going to be more difficlt than in an area that is continually flat. In the mountainous areas even the simple things like roads and bridges aren't in place so it isn't surprising that digital technology isn't very developed.