The document discusses how the digital divide relates to social capital, knowledge capital, and human capital. The digital divide interrupts relationships between those with and without technology access, hindering social capital. It also stops the communication needed to expand knowledge capital. Further, the digital divide divides workforce skill levels, making it difficult for manual laborers without technology access to expand their human capital online.

1. DIGITAL DIVIDE AND
CAPITAL

2. DIGITAL DIVIDE
• Digital divide is defined as the gap between those who have ready access to
technology and those who don’t.

3. SOCIAL CAPITAL
• Social capital is defined as the network of relationships between people who exist
in a certain society. These relationships help the particular society to function
properly. (IIE 2015)
• The digital divide has a relationship with social capital. This relationship is not
beneficial because it interrupts the relationships and potential relationships
between people who do and don’t have proper access to technology.

4. KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL
• Knowledge capital is also called intellectual capital and is a collection of
knowledge, ideas, processes and talents.
• There is a correlation between the digital divide and knowledge capital because
being a collection of knowledge, the knowledge capital has to be passed
on/communicated to someone else in order for the knowledge capital to expand.
The issue with this is that the digital divide stops the communication with certain
people who don’t have access to technology, that would otherwise help them
reach information easily.

5. HUMAN CAPITAL
• Human Capital is known as the skills and/or experience that an individual or
population has/have.
• In today’s world, we have different levels of workers with different skillsets, and
the digital divide divides these levels even further. The reason for this is that
manual labourers will most likely be among those that don’t have proper access
to technology. This means that they most likely will not be able to expand their
knowledge or skillset online and will end up staying in the same position.

6. REFERENCES
IORGULESCU, R., 2015. Human Capital, The Digital Divide, And The Possible Connection To The Flow-Fund Analysis Of Socioeconomic Metabolism. [Online
Available at: https://ideas.repec.org/a/cbu/jrnlec/y2015v1ip5-16.html
[Accessed 24 May 2016].