DEFINITIONS OF THE

FOLLOWING
Social capital: The networks of social connections
that exist between people, and their shared values
and norms of behaviour, which enable and
encourage mutually advantageous social cooperation

Knowledge Capital
Also called as intellectual capital, is the intangible assets that
represents valuable ideas, methods, process and other intuitive
talents that belong to the company
An intangible asset that comprises the information and skills of a
companys employees, their experience with business processes,
group work and on-the-job learning.
Knowledge capital is not like the physical factors of production in
that it is based n skills that employees share with each other I
order to improve efficiencies , rather than on physical items .
Having employees with skills and access to knowledge capital
puts a company at a comparative advantage to its competitors.

Human capital
This is the skills, knowledge and experience possessed by
and individual or population viewed in terms of their
value or cost to an organisation or country
It is a measure of the economic value of an employees
skill set . This measure builds on the basic production
input of labor measure where all labor is thought to be
equal.
The concept of human capital recognizes that not all labor
is equal and that the quality of employees can be
improved by investing in them; the education, abilities
and experience of employees have economic value for
employees have economic value for employers and for
the economy as a whole.

Ramifications of Digital Divide

Socio-economic Divide: This

divide is often associated with socio-economic factors, but like the
gap between developed countries and developing countries, the
digital divide is also associated with geo demographic factors
developing vs developed countries. This is relevant in the case of
Internet use, where nations vary widely in the number or ratio of
the public with access to the Internet.
It is an economic idea that refers to the connections between
individuals and entities that can be economically valuable .
Social networks that can include people who trust and assist each
other can be a powerful asset.
These relationship between individuals and companies can lead to
a state in which each thinks if the other when something needs to
be done.

Divide in Infrastructure
Continuing along the theme of developing vs developed
countries lies the issue of infrastructure. Developed
countries have a far greater penetration of appropriate and
up-to-date infrastructure than that of developing countries.
Quite simply, it is the infrastructure of developing countries
that often impedes the broad range of access, in addition to
socio-economic factors.

Divide in Content

According to Dutton (2004), nearly 70% of

websites are in English. Although this has
changed substantially, the fact of the matter
remains that English dominates the web.

Gender Divide
the Internet gender gap is notable in developing
countries, with very real consequences to the
girls and women of those communities. The
statistics show that, on average, women are
online in developing countries 23% less than
that of their male counterparts

Skills Divide
Having the skills to operate a computer is
probably the biggest opportunity, or
hindrance, to the adoption, or not, of
technology for development. Although
accessibility is increasing, skills are
not necessarily conforming at the same rate
of increase. These skills relate to digital
literacies. This is perhaps a greater issue than
that of physical access

The Universal Access

Divide
Another issue pertaining to digital
access is that of those who are
physically disadvantaged. Those that
suffer from some physical disability are
often disenfranchised when it comes to
access, not because of the lack of skills
but, moreover, the hardware and
software utilised and available.
Furthermore, the cost of such hardware
and software is exorbitant