Language
Language is also a factor that has caused the digital divide. Most websites on the internet are in English and Chinese the reason for this is because these places don’t have access to internet there isn't a great demand to make websites in these languages, “By the year 2000, only 20% of all Web sites in the world were in languages other than English, and most of these were in Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese” [Ryder M, 2005] in more simpilar terms this is the same as ony five people who cant speak english on a average bus which can hold 26 people. According to yahoo there are 634 million websites on the internet so 1326800000 of the websites on the internet are not english. In places like Africa, Southern Asia and parts of India not many people understand English so this is a problem. “Less than ten percent of people are English-literate while the rest, more than two billion, speak languages that are sparsely represented on the Web” [Ryder M, 2005]. However on some webpage’s like modern browsers for example, you can change the language and translate the page into your own language so this might be a solution to the language problem.
http://www.dividedbytechnology.co.uk/impacts.html
Language is also a factor that has caused the digital divide. Most websites on the internet are in English and Chinese the reason for this is because these places don’t have access to internet there isn't a great demand to make websites in these languages, “By the year 2000, only 20% of all Web sites in the world were in languages other than English, and most of these were in Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese” [Ryder M, 2005] in more simpilar terms this is the same as ony five people who cant speak english on a average bus which can hold 26 people. According to yahoo there are 634 million websites on the internet so 1326800000 of the websites on the internet are not english. In places like Africa, Southern Asia and parts of India not many people understand English so this is a problem. “Less than ten percent of people are English-literate while the rest, more than two billion, speak languages that are sparsely represented on the Web” [Ryder M, 2005]. However on some webpage’s like modern browsers for example, you can change the language and translate the page into your own language so this might be a solution to the language problem.
http://www.dividedbytechnology.co.uk/impacts.html