digital poverty
No internet access
Digital poverty is the lack of adequate access to digital technology—whether through absent internet connectivity, unaffordable devices, or insufficient digital skills.
The term frames technological exclusion as a form of deprivation comparable to material poverty: Digital poverty meant her children couldn't do homework online.
It highlights how the gap between connected and unconnected populations creates real disadvantages in education, employment, and civic participation.
- devicesTools or mechanisms
- low incomeEarnings below average
- income inequalityDisparity in earnings distribution
- broadbandFast internet access
- media literacySkill evaluating information sources
homework gap · mobile networks · urban-rural divide · left behind · unemployment · hotspots · Wi-Fi · e-learning platforms · routers · exclusion · fiber optics · satellite internet · telehealth · affordability · coding · online banking · job applications · troubleshooting
- povertypoor, destitution, penniless, needy, destitute
- Digital Accessinternet, broadband access, WiFi, broadband, connectivity
digital povertydigital access
Permission to use technology
universal access · digital connectivity · connectivity · broadband access · internet connectivity
digital, digit, digits, digitally, digitize, digitized, digitization, digitizing, digitalization