Digital barrier

In Russian, there is no single equivalent of the term digital divide that has become established in English . The word combinations “digital barrier”, “digital inequality”, “digital separation”, “digital divide”, “digital divide”, “digital pit”, “digital divide”, “digital curtain” are used.

Currently, digital divide is a socio-political term. The possibility of a disadvantaged group is affected by the absence or limited access to television , the Internet , telephone communications (mobile and landline), and radio . All this limits the ability of this group to find work, establish social ties, cultural exchange and can negatively affect economic efficiency, the development and preservation of culture, and the level of education. According to generally accepted views on the information society , its specificity is such that the free exchange of information helps to overcome poverty and inequality, but for those who are disconnected from such an exchange, the prospects are catastrophically worsening ( Castells , : “The global trend is that the information economy connects to its network those who are of value to it (thereby giving them added value), but disconnects those who have no value to it (thereby further reducing their chances of gaining some value) ” ).

The term is applied both to the difference between countries (for example, in Iceland more than 86% of the population has access to the Internet, while in Liberia - 0.03% ^[1] ), and in relation to the difference in the opportunities of different social strata within the same society.

In 2006, the UN General Assembly, in resolution No. A / RES / 60/252, proclaimed World Information Society Day . One of the goals was to raise awareness of ways to bridge the digital divide.

The International Telecommunication Union is a UN specialized branch in the field of information and communication technologies. It regularly calculates and publishes a report. The ICT development index in the countries of the world . The ICT development index is a combined indicator characterizing the achievements of the countries of the world in terms of the development of information and communication technologies (ICT). The index was developed in 2007 based on 11 indicators used by the International Telecommunication Union in its assessments of ICT development. The index brings these indicators into a single criterion, which is designed to compare the achievements of the countries of the world in the development of ICT and can be used as a tool for conducting comparative analysis at the global, regional and national levels. ^[2]

• Pekka Himanen, Manuel Castels. The information society and the welfare state. Finnish Model = The Information Society and Welfare State: The Finnish Model. - Logos, 2002 .-- 224 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 5-8163-0040-7 .
• Digital Inequality at Microsoft — Russia
• Norris, Pippa. Digital divide: civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet worldwide. - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001 .-- xv, 303 p. - ISBN 0521002230 .

• Information barrier
• Social inequality
• Discrimination
• Electronic state
• E-government
• Electronic Russia

• Overcoming Information Inequality, Russian Development Gateway (inaccessible link from 30-11-2015 [1378 days])
• Partnership for the Development of the Information Society in the North-West of Russia (PRIOR SZ)
• On the way to absolute knowledge - 2; Digital Inequality , 2005
• Medvedev called for fighting informational “inequality” , 2008