Digital access refers to full electronic participation in society through access to digital technology and the internet. However, not everyone has equal opportunities for access due to a "digital divide" between those who can access technology and those who cannot. While providing universal access is impossible, increasing digital access for all can help address issues like lack of access to education, economic disadvantages, and difficulties communicating. Possible solutions include projects that provide low-cost technology access, considering different perspectives on technology use, and committing to equal digital access regardless of gender, race, ability, or location.

1. Digital Access
BY KENNEDY BISHOP AND JOHN MCDEARMAN

2. What is Digital Access?
• Full electronic participation in society
• Meaning everyone should have access to digital technology
• Especially when the technology is free (like the Internet)

3. Access to Computers and Technology Tools

4. • It is called Digital Divide when there is a gap between people who have
access to technology and those who don’t
• Not everyone has the same opportunities when it comes to technology
• It is the starting point of Digital Citizenship

5. • Most citizens believe that everyone should have access to education,
health care, the right to worship, etc.
• Reality is providing access for everyone is impossible

6. What ways do we use digital
Access?
• THE INTERNET
• TELECOMMUNICATION

7. Problems of Digital Access
• Not everyone has access
• Without access there can be
know educational research
• Economically it can hurt us
• Without it , it makes it difficult
to communicate
• It is expensive

8. Possible Solutions
• There is a project called “One Laptop Per Child”
-The project relies on free software
• They say see it from others points of view
-Meaning a child fromAfrica would use it a lot different
than a child fromAmerica

9. • One gender should not have
preferential treatment over
another
• Should not be determined by
race, physical and mental
challenges
• Those in cities and towns with
limited connectivity need to be
addressed as well
• We need to be committed to
equal digital access