I have a few ideas that could help with the digital divide, but all involve money and the governments help.
My first idea is for the government to be able to fund a computer per household, this would help as then all families would have a computer. This would also involve a help line or something similar which would have easy steps to inform people of what they want help with, this would be free. For families to have the full privelegde of technology i believe that broadband should be cheaper and those with lower incomes would have a discount on that.
This idea would be problematic as computers would need updating quite alot or they would need new computers if they were broken, stolen or really old and i do not believe that replacements or updates would be an easier and cheap thing to do. Also those with a higher income are more likely to be able to replace them, so therfore it would just cause a divide again.
Another idea of mine would to have free teachers to train those that do not have much of a clue on a computer or internet. Also i think a good idea would to have in each community a hall or something with access to free computers and internet with a helper there to teach them either new things or help with things they are unsure on.
These would all cause problems and alot of money for each community and i believe what ever solutions people come up with there will always be some kind of a divide.
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