Factors Affecting Digital Divide

Economic factors, Geographical factors, Technophobia, and Social factors are the underscored factors that affect the digital divide.

Information-rich jobs emerge as crucial in this new setting, not just service jobs with low information content. One image of service sector jobs conjures up a picture of millions of people, working in fast-food restaurants, or clerks stuffing papers into file cabinets. That is an old and increasingly inaccurate image of the service sector, one that would have been of greater use in the 1950s than it is today.