Digital Divides (continued)

Consider also:

Percentage of U.S. Households with a Computer By Race/Hispanic Origin, 2001:

  White 61.1%  
  Black 37.1%  
  Asian American and Pacific Islander 72.7%  
  Hispanic 40.0%  

 (Source: NTIA and ESA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

Such disparities in access to computer technology and the Internet are often called digital divides.

As computer and Internet access become increasingly necessary in order to be enfranchised in today's world, such digital divides become highly disturbing.
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