LISBON: Connecting everyone in the world to the Web will not single-handedly bridge the digital divide, tech experts at the Web Summit said this week, citing other invisible barriers like high costs, low digital literacy and complicated user interfaces.
The so-called “digital divide” refers to the gap between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who don’t, with the latter group made up of nearly half the world’s population, according to the United Nations.
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