Today’s economically advanced countries are provided with access to the internet by means of personal home computers, libraries, schools, cafés, and

Ignorance is bliss. But how much time will we be ignorant and realize that digital divide is a problem, because sooner or later computers and the internet will be just as standard as a wooden spoon in your kitchen.

organizations are just beginning to do this and try to bridge the digital divide (Symonds 515). Even though the majority of the people we consider to be disenfranchised do not need the internet to survive, it is a tool that can be utilized to improve many people’s lives. These improvements deal with education, communications, and information. The internet will surely will penetrate its way through into every home slowly but surely.

many others. These nations can provide their economies with the internet by providing them in public spaces. The LSTA (The Library Services and Technology Act) is a model federal program for funding libraries to increase the visibility and credibility of the public library as the “information place in their community (Bertot, McClure, and Ryan 3).” Because of such services anyone can access the internet for free. If there are free opportunities for the general public to utilize technological equipment, then why are there still many who don’t use it? According to Henry Louis Gates, black communities don’t find the content on the net of interest to them (Ga

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