The Digital Divide
Let’s begin with the simple facts at hand, that the digital divide is just that a divide again the populations around the world that have very little change to have internet. One such organization, One laptop per Child a non profit did try to do that to help bring the digital devices and educational needs to the areas with the greatest need. It however went terribly wrong. We can only identify areas that need the digital signals and try to provide for them. This is where Elon Musk’s idea of StarLink is being conceived to do just that. This will greatly help people with low income or places that has no access to wired internet to be able to get digital signals to them. In all truthfulness, I really don’t have a lot of ideas on how to address this divide but I am sure it’s only a matter time before someone else comes up with the ideas that will make it work even better than I could imagine it.
Addressing it
Some way I guess we could address this issue is simply by making it inexpensive to countries that can’t afford to pay 100$ for the internet and or pay for the One Laptop Per Child. I would think if we can get governments around the world to embrace stuff like this and help pay for the technology or even just the internet than more people around the world would be able to access the digital devices like everyone else. I can think of maybe a few ways to help decrease the amount of the device or even just the internet to people who have little or no internet. Make it free for everyone around the world but then who’d pay for it? Who’d keep our privacy safe? Who’d make sure they didn’t misuse our information? That’s the real big question when it comes to how to make a free internet, because we will always have to worry about someone using our information for bad or even making money off of us in one way or another. Still this is just one way we can at least attempt to fix the problems with the digital divide. It isn’t going to solve every problem but at least it would make it so much easier for people to get onto the internet and we wouldn’t have as big of a divide like we do today.
