問16
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情報を活用できる環境や能力の差によって, 待遇や収入などの格差が生じることを表すものはどれか。
平成27年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問16
ストラテジ系システム戦略 › システム活用促進・評価
This question's explanation and your answers so far.
解説
問 16
Incorrectア
Information barrier-free (information accessibility) refers to making considerations so that everyone, including the elderly and people with disabilities, can use information and communication devices and services without difficulty (ensuring accessibility). It is a concept about “efforts to eliminate or ease gaps,” not a term that expresses the very phenomenon in which gaps arise from differences in environment or ability.
Incorrectイ
Information literacy refers to an individual's ability to gather, evaluate, and make use of information and to disseminate it correctly. Although this is one of the factors that create gaps, it is not a term that expresses the very phenomenon in which gaps in treatment and income arise, so it is incorrect.
- ウ
正解 The correct answer is “ウ Digital divide.” The digital divide (information gap) refers to the phenomenon in which differences in whether people have access to information and communication technology (ICT) such as personal computers and the Internet, together with differences in the ability to use it effectively, create differences in the amount and quality of information people can obtain, and this in turn widens social and economic gaps such as treatment, income, and opportunity. The cause-and-effect relationship in the question — from “differences in the environment or ability to make use of information” to “gaps in treatment, income, and so on” — is exactly the definition of this term, so ウ is correct.
Incorrectエ
Data mining is a technique and method that analyzes large volumes of data using approaches such as statistics and machine learning to unearth useful knowledge such as hidden regularities and correlations. It is unrelated to the digital divide and does not fit the intent of the question.
ここがポイント
- Digital divide (information gap) = a term for the phenomenon in which differences in the environment and in the ability to use ICT lead to social gaps such as treatment, income, and opportunity.
- Distinguishing the confusing terms: information barrier-free is “consideration to eliminate gaps,” information literacy is “an individual's ability to make use of information,” and data mining is “extracting knowledge from large volumes of data.”
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