The Digital Divide

As a child of the computer generation I feel that it is easier for me to realize a digital divide, mostly because I know that it does not take much to disconnect a person from the world as they are used to interacting with it.  Take a cell phone away from a teenager and they will not be able to function at all.  Therefore, it is easier for a young person today to realize just how detrimental a digital divide for a country or a community can be.  There are ways that people are trying to bridge that gap and they are to a certain extent successful.  Schools in developing countries are receiving grants to put computers into schools for children to learn basic computing skills from an early age.
Having a digital divide drastically affects the way that people live because most people today are aware of how important it is for them to be connected, be it over the internet or by having a cell phone.  People have a hard time settling for not having one or the other and they will make sure, if they have the access to it, that they do have them.  If it means not having something else then that is okay, they can compromise.
Realizing that there is a digital divide also spurred on the sudden development of organizations that's goal is to make sure that they make that divide smaller.  It has consciously changed the way that people deal with developing countries that do not have the privileges that we do. We, having the money and the access, concede that it is our duty to make sure that we make life easier for them by trying our best to make sure that they have the ability to know how to use the technology of the future and to also make sure that they have the ability to get to it on a regular basis which is why it has been more important to get computers and technology in schools than it has to make sure that every family has a computer in their home.