The internet, a global network consisting of interconnect networks represents a connected world where data and information can be discovered and shared without limits. Information and communication technology (ICT’s) acts as a gateway to the internet connecting people globally. The problem is that Information and communication technology, is not evenly distributed around the world and thus there is the issue of the digital divide. The digital divide is the inequality between people with access to these information and communication technology and those do not. On a global scale, the global digital divide covers disparities between the developed countries which have access to this form of technology verses the developing countries which do not have access to this technology depriving them from developing into a developed country. Bridging the global digital divide would take a lot of resources and there are projects right now trying to work on bridging the global digital divide such as the non-profit One Laptop per Child program; however, Canada should not aid in bridging the global digital divide right now.
