Digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, involving smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. The digital divide becomes even more wose with inequality around access to information and resources. In the Information Age, people without access to the Internet and other technology makes it harder for them to be able to connect with others, find and apply for jobs, online shopping, and being educated about some things
As of 2021, only about half of the world's population had access to the internet, leaving 3.7 billion people without internet. A majority of those are in developing countries, and a large portion of them are women. Also, the governments of different countries have different policies about privacy, data governance, speech freedoms and many other factors. Government restrictions make it challenging for technology companies to provide services in certain countries. This disproportionately impacts the different regions of the world; Europe has the highest percentage of the population online while Africa has the lowest. From 2010 to 2014 Europe went from 67% to 75% and in the same time span Africa went from 10% to 19%.