Do Insecure Systems Increase Global Digital Divide?

Without doubt information and communication technologies (ICTs) continue to change the world to varying degrees from one place to another, depending on a number of technological and socio-economical factors such as: physical access to technology, education, geographical locations, language and gender (Warschauer, 2002; Chen & Wellman, 2003; Nahon, 2006). As a result of these factors the rates of adopting ICTs are different between countries. Accordingly, this creates a disparity between communities, or a gap commonly known as Global Digital Divide. The term digital divide is claimed to have been first used a decade ago by US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NITA, 1999). Since then, the term has been extensively discussed by scholars and politicians in order to propose strategies and recommendation for bridging the aBstract