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The document discusses the digital divide in India, which refers to the gap in access to modern technology and the internet between different groups. It identifies some key facets of the digital divide in India, including urban-rural, gender, regional, literacy and linguistic divides. The effects of the digital divide are educational, social, political, economic and on governance. The government has launched several initiatives to bridge the digital divide such as Digital India, BharatNet and PM Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan. Ensuring equitable access to education for all students remains an ongoing challenge.

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Prudhvi Eng

The document discusses the digital divide in India, which refers to the gap in access to modern technology and the internet between different groups. It identifies some key facets of the digital divide in India, including urban-rural, gender, regional, literacy and linguistic divides. The effects of the digital divide are educational, social, political, economic and on governance. The government has launched several initiatives to bridge the digital divide such as Digital India, BharatNet and PM Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan. Ensuring equitable access to education for all students remains an ongoing challenge.

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• NAME: PRUDHVI

• ROLL NO: 2200570044


• COURSE: LEGAL PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• COURSE CODE:22UC2103L
WHAT IS DIGITAL DIVIDE?
The digital divide refers to the gap between demographics and
regions that have access to modern information and communications
technology and those that don’t. Though the term now encompasses
the technical and financial ability to utilize available technology—
along with access (or a lack of access) to the internet—the gap it
refers to is constantly shifting with the development of technology.
TYPES OF DIGITAL DIVIDE IN INDIA
TYPES OF DIGITAL DIVIDE IN INDIA
1.The Digital Divide, also called the digital split, is a social issue
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and on a global scale between more and
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DIGITAL DIVIDE IN INDIA – FACETS

1. The Urban-Rural divide


2. Gender Digital inequalities
3. Regional Digital Divide and Intra-State
Digital inequality
4. Disparity due to literacy/digital literacy
5. Linguistic Digital Divide
Digital Divide in India – Effects/Implications

1.Educational: The digital divide in India will affect the capacity of children to learn and develop.
Read about Digital Education in India.
2.Without Internet access, students cannot build the required technology-related skills.
3.Social: Internet penetration is associated with greater social progress of a nation. Thus digital divide
in a way hinders the social progress of a country. Rural population is suffering from lack of
information due to the Digital divide in India, this will only strengthen the vicious cycle of poverty,
deprivation, and backwardness.
4.Political: In the age of social media, political empowerment and mobilization are difficult without
digital connectivity.
5.Economic: The digital divide will increase economic inequality between those who can afford the
technology and those who don’t.
6.Governance: Transparency and accountability are dependent on digital connectivity. The digital
divide affects e-governance initiatives negatively. Know about e-governance and its significance on the
given link.
RELATED INITIATIVES

•National Education Policy, 2020.


•Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing
(DIKSHA).
•PM eVidya.
•Swayam Prabha TV Channel
•SWAYAM portal
Government Initiative To Bridge Digital Divide in India

The Government of India is taking significant steps towards acquiring


competence in information and technology to cope with India’s Digital Divide.
1.Digital India Initiatives by Government to improve internet access in the
country. Know about Digital India on the linked page. A few initiatives under this
are –
•In 2011, the BharatNet project was launched to connect 0.25 million panchayats
through an optical fibre (100 MBPS) and connect India’s villages.
•In 2014, the government launched the National Digital Literacy Mission and the
Digital Saksharta Abhiyan.
•In 2015, the government launched several schemes under its Digital India
campaign to connect the entire country.
•PM Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan, launched in 2017, to usher in digital literacy
in rural India by covering 60 million households.
WAY FORWARD
•Even though schools are now reopening gradually due to the receding curve
of the pandemic, the “need to provide adequate computer-based
equipment together with access to online facilities for children is of
utmost importance”.
•Priority should be given to the less advantaged students who do not have
access to e-learning.
•Genuine efforts must be invested to ensure every child gets good quality
equitable education as a fundamental right.
•A solution has to be devised at all levels of the Government, State and
Centre, to ensure that adequate facilities are made available to children across
social strata so that access to education is not denied to those who lack
resources.
• The UN’s Broadband Commission
for Sustainable
Development estimates that
nearly 3.6 billion people remain
totally unconnected to the
Internet by any measure. This
means there are around 4.1
billion people online, about 53.6%
of the global population.

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