digital divide
The gap in opportunities experienced by those with limited accessibility to technology, especially the Internet. This includes, but is not limited to, accessibility challenges in the following areas:
• Cultural (e.g., membership of a community that prohibits or restricts access to technology)
- Physical (e.g., having a disability that make it difficult or impossible to use a computer)
- Economic (e.g., being unable to afford a computer)
- Educational (e.g., not knowing how to use a computer)
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Technology
- Category: Information technology
- Company: Gartner
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