digital divide

English

Noun

digital divide (plural digital divides)

1. (information technology, sociology, neologism) The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies (and the computer literacy to use them) and those without it.
   • 2020 April 17, Rebecca Solnit, “Coronavirus does discriminate, because that’s what humans do”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As schools were closed, the digital divide meant that more affluent families with computers, iPads and good internet connections had a very different home educational (and informational, social and entertainment) situation than families without these amenities.

Synonyms

• digital gap

Translations

gap

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 數位落差／数位落差 (sou³ wai⁶ lok⁶ caa¹), 數碼鴻溝／数码鸿沟 (sou³ maa⁵ hung⁴ kau¹), 數碼隔膜／数码隔膜 (sou³ maa⁵ gaak³ mok⁶), 數碼差距／数码差距 (sou³ maa⁵ caa¹ keoi⁵)

  Mandarin: 數位落差／数位落差 (shùwèi luòchā), 數碼鴻溝／数码鸿沟 (shùmǎ hónggōu), 數碼隔膜／数码隔膜 (shùmǎ gémó), 數碼差距／数码差距 (shùmǎ chājù), 數字鴻溝／数字鸿沟 (shùzì hónggōu)

• Finnish: digikuilu
• French: fossé numérique m, fracture numérique (fr) f
• Russian: цифровой барьер m (cifrovoj barʹjer), цифровое неравенство n (cifrovoje neravenstvo), информационное неравенство n (informacionnoje neravenstvo)
• Swedish: digital klyfta c

See also

• e-inclusion
• haves and have-nots

 

Further reading

• digital divide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia