Learn in the textbookPromoting and Evaluating System Utilization
DefinitionThe digital divide (デジタルディバイド) is the gap that arises between people who can use IT and people who cannot.
ExplanationGaps tend to appear, for example, in areas where devices and network connections are hard to obtain and among generations unused to operating devices. If the gap is left alone, the further government procedures and similar services move online, the worse off those who cannot use them become.
AnalogyJust as a home far from the station makes commuting and shopping harder, people far from a way onto the internet get left behind by convenient services.
Memory hookDivide means to split. Picture society split into those who can use IT and those who cannot.