Impact of INTERNET on the

fight against POVERTY.

How useful the INTERNET is ?
 The internet is an effective way to raise
awareness. The first step is letting people know
what’s going on.
 Many organizations, use the internet to promote
their cause. With their websites, they are able to
spread awareness of the extreme poverty
conditions that many countries are under. These
websites also have videos, pictures and ways
poverty can be eradicated.
 In addition, the internet can be useful for
recruiting people to help end poverty. The internet
is used worldwide.
 Therefore, bringing people together from all over
the world can be easily done through social media.
If each country has a handful of people helping, it
increases the chances of ending global poverty.
How can the INTERNET help
people in POVERTY?

Having a connection to the internet can make a

difference in the lives of people who are living in
poverty.

It can empower them to make their own decisions.

Connectivity can also lead to access to healthy food,
a home and freedom of speech.

With a connection to the internet, information is

available to help people stay safe, educated and
communicated.

According to ONE, “internet connectivity could

generate $2.2 trillion of economic growth and
create new jobs… could lift 160 million people out of
extreme poverty.”
THE CHALLENGES AHEAD
In the last 15 years, Internet and digital usage has
increased rapidly; more people now have mobile
phones than sanitation or clean water. Today,
there are nearly 4.3 billion mobile-broadband
subscriptions in existence (ITU, 2017).

The impact of these technologies could be

negative if the digital divide is not addressed,
increasing the probability of the most vulnerable
being left behind.

The risk is increasing inequality between those

who have access and those who do not, thus
increasing the rewards for people with skills and
access while upping the penalties for those
without (World Bank, 2016).

These inequalities are reflected between

industrialized and agricultural economies, urban
and rural areas, men and women, and among
economic classes
Why INTERNET is a basic RIGHT ?

“Now more than ever, internet access is a lifeline — not a luxury.

But it is a lifeline that over 3.5 billion people cannot access”

Fortunate have enough  meaningful connectivity, the internet

provides a crucial link to information that helps us keep our families
healthy and safe during this global health crisis.

But digital inequality deprives billions of people these critical

connections. The coronavirus crisis has starkly exposed the shocking
digital divide that persists around the world.

Only 54% of the global population is connected today, with 

people in poorer regions far less likely to be online, along with 
women, elderly people and those living in remote and rural areas.

Among those who are online, many are only connected via their
place of work, school or in public access spaces such as libraries and
cafes — meaning the closures of these public spaces will push even
more people offline.
ASPECTS where the impact of
INTERNET is evident on POVERTY in
COVID-19

Malnutrition

Susceptibility to
Disease

Missed Schooling
IMPACT ON MALNUTRITION
Malnutrition is caused by multiple factors like early
marriage, poor maternal health, incorrect handwashing
and hygiene practices, and a lack of exclusive
breastfeeding or eating dietary diverse foods.

In time , when a sector of society was able to avail the

facilities of online services like shopping, availing
services of e-commerce platforms like groffers,
meanwhile the backward sector was unable to access
the grocery even from the market. As the prices were at
hike and so many died due to malnutrition (lack of
food).

Pregnant women and children were unable to have

proper nutrition in their diet which only increased the
risk of a child being born underweight and
malnourished.
IMPACT on MISSED SCHOOLING

It found that 72 per cent of the 1,416 surveyed

students said they had been affected by a lack of
access to a quiet space to study, with 24 per cent
saying they were moderately impacted and 22 per
cent saying they were severely impacted.

Children miss their schools due to many reasons as

of not having smartphones or having a very poor
network to support their regular classes.

Along with poor network connectivity is the added cost of

procuring smartphones so that children can have access to
online education.
 THE FACT
Whatever you need, and everything you
may not know you need, there’s an app
for that. If you’re plugged in, the world is,
literally, at your fingertips.

But, according to the 

World Development Report 2016: Digital
Dividends
, for 60% of the world’s population who
are not plugged in, as digital advances
race ahead, their path out of extreme
poverty grows ever longer. Over 1.7
billion women in low- and middle-income
countries do not own mobile phones

Women in South Asia, for example, are

38% less likely to own a phone than men.
If the path out of poverty is lined with
digital products, then gender inequality
Can the INTERNET end
POVERTY ?
So when people don’t have enough food, education,
healthcare, isn’t access to the internet a luxury that comes
later? 

Because when people have a connection to the internet,

information is available to guide decisions that can keep
them safe, and make them better off. The internet can
educate and help communicate.
Farmers can plan for the weather, and watch the prices of
goods in the market. Families can receive money from
relatives overseas. Microcredit transactions can give people a
digital and financial identity, and bring them into the local
economy. Women can gain power in their lives.

“By giving people access to the tools, knowledge and

opportunities of the Internet, we can 
give a voice to the voiceless and power to the powerless”
Delivered by : TEAM 1
(Garima, Vedansh, Vanshika, Simranjeet,
Rohit)