1. By: Rebecca Smith and Patrick Simms Digital Divide

2. What is it? Digital divide is defined as the gap between people that have access to the internet and those that do not. It is also defined as the gap between those that constantly use the internet and those that do not.

3. Why is it important? With the distribution of wealth already heavily unbalanced in society, those with access to the Internet are becoming even richer through the power of information The digital divide is compounding the effects of socio- economic divisions

4. Personal Experience Not having internet access, Vacation No service Not having a certain piece of technology Dead technologies

5. Solutions Affordable broadband access Wireless networks educational programs workshops Library administrators could provide a workshop on how to search the internet

6. Poll everywhere survey http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/L TExNTcxMjY0OTM http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/L TExNTcxMjY0OTM

7. Reference page http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring131/b lock131.html http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring131/b lock131.html http://www-cs- faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/cs201/projects/digital- divide/start.html http://www-cs- faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/cs201/projects/digital- divide/start.html http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/definition