The word originated from the book Power Transfer published by toffler 1990, a famous American futurist. The book put forward the concepts of information richness, information poverty, information gap and digital gap, and thought that the digital gap was the gap between information and electronic technology, which caused the polarization between developed and underdeveloped countries.
The digital divide is a global problem in the information age. It's not just a social differentiation problem caused by the difference of information technology ownership, application and innovation ability among different people in a country.
Moreover, what is more acute is the North-South problem in the information age caused by the different development levels of information industry and information economy in various countries in the process of global digitalization, and its essence is the social justice problem in the information age.
It involves many important issues such as economic equality in today's world, poverty reduction and debt reduction for poor countries, breaking monopoly and unconditional technology transfer.
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National interests:
Acknowledging the existence of the digital divide is the consensus of the whole world. But as a nation-state, how should we treat this problem? The essence of the problem lies in how the nation-state occupies a certain position in the world pattern in the process of globalization and informatization.
In the era of economic globalization and informatization, the nation-state exists at least today, so we must consider national interests and national interests. Otherwise, the basis for discussing the digital divide will not exist.
I quite agree with Zhu Houze's predecessors that information civilization has duality. British industrial civilization, Americanization of information civilization and Americanization of information civilization permeate the whole world.
In this process, on the one hand, it brings benefits to developing countries, on the other hand, its civilization is manifested in the form of evil. Here, a good civilization is definitely acceptable, and of course, our country should cross the digital divide as soon as possible. At the same time, we can sit down and negotiate on the manifestations of evil in the spread of civilization in order to safeguard the interests of our country and bargain.
Today, people are more and more aware that the future geographical world map will give way to the world map divided by knowledge level, the gap between countries will become larger and larger, and wealth will be measured by knowledge more and more, thus triggering more and more social conflicts.
Therefore, the government should take various measures to narrow this gap. Since the beginning of this year, the government has started to talk about the digital divide, but so far it has not put forward specific implementation measures. More importantly, our views on the times are misplaced, and the quantity of material products is still used as an indicator to measure social development. We urgently need to establish a system to measure the informatization indicators of various places.
Since the beginning of this year, an obvious trend is that Internet companies have begun to combine with relevant national industry resources to truly form an industry. But in this respect, the state has not consciously accumulated and integrated such resources.
The Internet is actually an experiment. When you wander around the internet, your needs have been understood and grasped, which is the most terrible thing. However, has China's industrial sector really begun to realize this? Behind the network is actually the process of re-division of national interests.
Power gap:
Talking about the digital divide can't ignore another divide, that is, the power divide. What is the reality in China? In fact, digital capitalism and gangster capitalism are intertwined, and gangster capitalism is a more shocking phenomenon.
The injustice of power is the actual cause of the gap between the rich and the poor in China, not the digital divide. As far as China is concerned, the digital divide is more manifested as the gap in the overall information state between countries.
When our economists say that "the western development needs the Internet first", if we don't solve the system problem and face up to the problem of robber capitalism in China, the western development will become another way for some bureaucrats to carve up national resources.
Gangster capitalism is the result of some people directly transforming public property into personal property during privatization. Privatization is still a division of power and has nothing to do with ordinary people.
The gap between the rich class and the lower class is widening. This will lead to the crisis of China's integration into modern society. Therefore, to solve the digital divide, we cannot ignore another reality in China in the name of the digital divide, that is, the power gap, because it causes greater inequality.
We see that digital capitalism has also impacted and eliminated the power gap. What is digital capitalism? Marx once said that if the proletarians all over the world unite, Internazionale will come true.
Last year, there was a sign in Zhongguancun that said, "Computers all over the world are United, and the Internet must be realized." This sentence is actually about the reality that the United States forms group capital through pension funds and retirement funds, and then invests in neighboring countries through this group capital.
In this way, the capitalists all over the world unite through digitalization, while the proletarians do not seem to unite. Why do global capitalist countries become welfare countries and knowledge societies?
It is precisely because the inequality gap between capitalists and workers is minimized. Blue-collar workers have become knowledge workers, and the form of capital has changed. The so-called digital capitalism is supported by a large group of capital.
Group capitalism infiltrated by digital means is manifested in the entry of foreign capital, the rise of Internet and the opening of China telecom market. This has also brought some new rules.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-digital divide