On different types of digital divide…
Thursday, February 19th, 2009So we’re all familiar with the idea of the digital divide. In context of unions, around 70% of UK union members have access at home or work – most (but not all by any stretch) on broadband. This number is growing slightly all the time, but there’s a big chunk of the population that don’t have access to the intertubes, and hence to all the empowering and enfranchising goodness that flows from them.
Couple this with a drop off for those on the lowest incomes, and another for those over 60, and you see the danger of abandoning the offline path. Some of those least enfranchised in society are missing out disproportionally in the opportunities that easy access brings with it. (more…)
