Weekly Reflection Post
The digital divide is the one of the major problems facing today’s modern world. As some countries and regions of countries flourish with modern access to broadband internet. Other regions of the world are left in the past. Without equal access to the internet civilians of the world are intellectually isolated and unable to connect with modern day news, events, communication, and everyday tasks such as banking, research and knowledge gaining.
One way to help solve this problem is to pave the way for internet to be easily access regardless of your location. For areas in the US for example, the government could provide mobile phones to impoverished areas and provide incentives or funding for ISPs to enhance or deploy new internet infrastructure to rural and hard to reach areas of the country. In these modern times, access to the internet should be considered a basic human right and need to operate in today’s society. That’s why it’s also critical even for areas that have internet access to ensure their content is access to disabled individuals like hearing and sight impaired citizens. Audio readers, enhanced visual aids, closed captioned. Disabled Citizens lack of access is another form of digital divide and one that can easily be addressed.
That idea to be expanded to countries around the world. Many underdeveloped countries have virtually no access to the internet.
It’s global problem that needs a global solution. The UN should develop a unilateral program to help countries without access develop ways to deploy internet infrastructure. Those improvements would not only help the lives of their citizens but would eventually benefit each country economically, expanding the knowledge and education levels of their citizens
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