The digital divide refers to the way that access to digital technology is unequal. Reasons for this include access to physical devices, the costs of data access, digital literacy and geography. Often those disadvantaged digitally are already marginalised or disadvantaged in society, particularly in relation to age, poverty and rural locations (ethnicity and gender are a lot more mixed in this respect, differing also between countries).
Also known as: digital access, digital poverty, digitally excluded