Conference Presentation
Reference
New digital divide or squaring the circle?
BADILLO, Patrick-Yves
BADILLO, Patrick-Yves. New digital divide or squaring the circle? In: World Summit Information Society, Genève, 25-29 mai, 2015
New digital divide or squaring the circle?
Prof Patrick-Yves Badillo
“For in the 21st century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.
Eliminating the distinction between information rich and information poor countries is also critical to eliminating economic and other inequalities between North and South, and to improving the quality of life of all humanity.
Nelson Mandela
TELECOM 95, October 3, 1995
Digital technology has been seen as THE solution in the 1990's!
closing the digital gap as the millenium goal
1) Definition of digital divide and stakes
2) Euphoria: the "Information Society" program to eradicate Digital Divide
3) New digital divide
1) Definition of digital divide and stakes
« Digital Divide » : a binary categorisation
« digital inequalities », 1995
National Telecommunications and Information Administration(NTIA)
"clivage" between "have" and "have not"
Commonly digital divide is the gap between those who do and do not have access to computers and Internet Democracy and information / Inequalities
Inequalities and digital divide
Have not population Digital divide 1995
1996, New York Times«A New Gulf in American Education, the Digital Divide»
Jesse Jackson
1990's digital divide Golden age
2) Euphoria: the Information society
program will eradicate Digital Divide
“An Information Society for all”
Erkki Liikanen
Member of the European Commission
1
Internet will drive the economy
• all sectors, all businesses
• increase productivity
• create new businesses
• open global markets
The Internet is a key factor for growth,
competitiveness and employment
The digital agenda
A kind of euphoria: ICT Facts, 2013
3) New digital divide
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Inequalities are still there
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Theoretical issues: new digital divide
3) New digital divide
Estzer Hargittai "the second-level digital divide"
Van Dijk (2012)
Conclusion
Squaring the circle: is digital divide a mirage?
Digital divide is a dynamic concept and not a
static one!
http://medetel.lu/download/2013/parallel_sessions/presentation/day2/The_Digital_Divide.pdf
