The document discusses the digital divide issue in Australia. It defines the digital divide as the inequality between students from different socioeconomic backgrounds in accessing technology. The digital divide splits society and can impact employment opportunities and health outcomes. Factors that influence the digital divide include literacy rates, age, culture, location, financial status, and disability. Solutions discussed include improving access to technology, training skills, and government programs that aim to address gaps in education.

1. Student Name: Wafa Alharthi
Student ID: 17274635
The Digital Divide issue

2. Outline
• Introduction
• Definition of Digital Divide
• Digital Divide and the Society
• Employment and Salary
Options
• Health and the Related Issues
• Origin and Key Factors
• Literacy Rates
• Gender, Age and Culture
• Location
• Financial Status
• Solutions
• Training skills
• Online access options
• Relevance
• Life standards
improvement
• Government role
• Conclusion
• Reference List

3. Introduction
brief introduction about the Information
and Communication Technologies all over
the world and in Australia Specifically.

4. What is the definition Digital Divide?
• Applied to the environment of an
education establishment, the digital
divine may denote the inequality
between the students representing
different tiers of society (Soar,
Schwinder & Tsang, 2010).

5. Digital Divide and the Society
Though the link between technology and
social interactions may seem rather
feeble, the Digital Divide has literally split
the society apart, which is especially
evident in the setting of a public school.

6. The Impact of Technology on
Employment and Salary Options
The introduction of modern technologies
into the lives of ordinary people has
contributed to bringing the
unemployment rates down to an
impressive degree.

7. Another impact on the required skills
of working
Theintroductionofmoderntechnologies
intothebusinessworldhasalsotriggered
thenecessityforcandidatestoacquire
newskills,particularly,theskillsofworking
withnewtechnologies.

8. Hence, technologies split employees
:into
Poor
• who are incapable of
acquiring the desired skills
and knowledge.
Rich
• who have modern
technology for training new
skills at their disposal.

9. Another impact of digital divide on
health and the Related Issues
The patients, who cannot access the
latest information concerning
healthcare services via the Internet,
may fail to get the assistance that
they need to recover.

10. The roots of the digital divide
phenomenon

11. The rates of people’s literacy
The amount of people speaking English as their
second language, one will find out that they
make around 40% of the Internet users and only
5% of the entire world.

12. Digital Divide and Diversity
Age:
the older a person is, the harder it
becomes for them to train new skills,
especially related to the use of the
latest technology.

13. Culture
The culture issue has shaped the present day
image of a user of modern technology greatly.

14. Gender
Considered to be a side effect of culture
reinforcement, the notorious gender gap plays
a major part in the creation and a rapid
increase in the digital divide.

15. Location
The residents of urban
areas are considered to
be more advanced in
terms of usage of new
technologies by default.

16. Financial Status
The income rate is doubtlessly an
important factor in the creation of the
Digital Divide.

17. Disability
People with physical disabilities or mental
impairments face a range of challenges
when using new technologies.

18. Solutions for Digital Divide issue in
Australia
• Education issues and the Digital Divide.
• Helping students.
• Encouraging teachers.
• A range of programs have been created.

19. Programs
• EDUCASE should be mentioned as a very
successful program for addressing the Digital
Divide in schools, colleges and other
education establishments.

20. Programs
FUSE is another endeavor of the Australian
education authorities.

21. Other helpful programs

22. Another solution: Training skills
Helping students train their skills for using
modern media.

23. Another solution : Online access
options
Opening the access to new technologies is the
first and the most important step.

24. Another solution : Relevance
The relevance of the study
to the improvement of the
current Australian
standards of living.

25. Another solution: Life standards
improvement
The quality of life standards should be
upgraded.

26. The role government
• Promoting the significance of education
among students.
• Reducing the taxation rates in the realm of
education.

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28. Conclusion
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29. Reference List
• EDUCASE (2014). Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/
• Digital Divide – Holding Back Disadvantages Kids (Crikey):
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/09/the-digital-divide-holding-back-
disadvantaged-kids/
• Taking ITGlobal: http://issues.tigweb.org/technology
• Ideas Lab (Broadmeadows Victoria): http://www.ideaslab.edu.au/
• FUSE (2014). Retrieved from
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/Teacher.aspx
• Marshall, S., Taylor, W. & Yu, X. X. (2003). Closing the Digital Divide:
Transforming regional economies and communities with information
technology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Soar, J., Schwinder, R. & Tsang, P. (2010). Intelligent technologies for
bridging the grey digital divide. Hershey, NY: IDI.
• Digital Divide research article: McLaren, J., & Zappala, G. (2002). The
'digital divide' among financially disadvantaged families in Australia. First
Monday, 7(11). Retrieved 31 January, 2013, from
http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/
view/1003/924