ISSUES SURROUNDING DIGITAL

ACCESS

Digital divide -the socio-economic and other disparities and skills

enabling them to benefit from digital resource, especially the
Internet and those who do not have these opportunities.

Elements of digital divide

a socio-economic divide.
a divide in infrastructure.
a divide in content.
a gender divide.
a skills divide.
the universal access divide.

 Social capital-the network of relationships among

people who live and work in a particular society,
enabling that society to function effectively
Human capital-the skills, knowledge and experience
possessed by an individual or population viewed in
terms of their value or cost to an organization or
country ,is a measure of the economic value on the
basic production input of labour measure where all
labour is thought to be equal
human capital definition|
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 Knowledge - capital , also called intellectual capital, is

the intangible asset that represents valuable ideas,
methods, processes and other intuitive talents that
belong to a company.
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Divide and social capital.
social capital is the collective value of all social
networks and the inclination that arise from these
networks to do things for each other .The central
promise of social capital is that social networks have
value.

 Divide and knowledge capital.

knowledge is defined as facts ,information, and skills
acquired through experience or education the
theoretical or practical understanding of a subject
(oxford Dictionaries) This clarifies the issues of how
the divide can impact on business, as those that are
disenfranchised in terms of access will have limited
ability to gain equitable and profitable employment
.Moreover this also means that those entrepreneurs
from a disadvantaged background will struggle to
complete in global economy if they are not exposed to
technology and the world wide web thereby impending
the success the entrepreneur (dutton,2004)

 users who engage and collaborate with in social tools

such as face book, twitter and LinkedIn, we are in fact
building scale capital, in addition to our social capital
we are increasing our social capital we are increasing
our social and communication skills. further more we
are growing our general digital literacy whilst
increasing our psychological well-being as we feel
connected and respected through engagement with
other (duke university South Africa.