Digital access refers to full electronic participation in society through technology and educational resources online. It is an important issue because not everyone has equal access due to factors like economic challenges and technology costs. While some are more engaged with technology than others, digital access encompasses connectivity, obtaining information, and regaining access through gateways like the internet. Key related topics include infrastructure, education, censorship, identity, and the digital divide between those who can and cannot access online resources.

1. DIGITAL ACCESS
BY: SYDNEY VESTAL

2. WHAT IS DIGITAL ACCESS?
Digital access is full electronic participation in society.
Digital Access is a topic that talks about how many people
actually have access to technology and educational
resources within technology.

3. WHAT IS DIGITAL ACCESS?
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This is a major issue for countries that are
economically challenged, because technology
can be expensive.

4. WHY IS DIGITAL ACCESS
IMPORTANT?
It is important to understand that not everyone
has the same level of access; some have more,
others less. In addition, some people choose to
engage in technology more frequently than
others, even to the point of excess.

5. WHY IS DIGITAL ACCESS IMPORTANT?
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The ten most important terms that have to do with
Access are: connect, internet, access, obtain,
retrieve, regain and gate way which all mean that
there is or you can access something although in
particular, the internet.

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Access can mean a lot of things. You can have access to a
car, house, internet and many more things. There are also
sub-topics which include: infrastructure, education,
censorship, identity and the most important is digital divide.
These sub-topics are very important in access to the
internet and show a lot, although they also have their
positives and negatives.

7. POSITIVES
• You need communication to get access to the internet and it is
easy to get. Communication is through the satellite which now you
don’t have to buy anything or do anything to get the satellite
except for a disk.
• If you have the education you can simply go on the internet and
automatically be able to do things and know how it works.

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• Censorship can prevent and protect other countries or their government from
crime. It may also prevent people of thinking of other things in a bad way.
• You have access to the internet your identity can be shown through various
ways for example, Facebook and MySpace through profiles, pictures and the
network. The positive thing is now you can show your identity to other people
around the world.

9. NEGATIVES
• Negative point to infrastructure is that not everyone has access to the
satellite and doesn’t have a disk so they don’t have wireless connection to the
internet.
• Without the education, you would get on the internet and not know how to
do anything compared to someone who has had the experience and knows
how to use everything.

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• Negative thing is when you show things on the internet such as your identity,
someone can steal it or can get to much information about you and can be
dangerous.
• Digital Divide put people in the wrong idea and some may say that it is too
simple to separate people like that into sections. And that it is basically saying
and dividing the people into rich people and poor people.