Digital divide jako bariera w realizowaniu rozwoju zrównoważonego
Digital divide as a barrier for sustainable development

Summary/Abstract: Ideas of sustainable development can be perceived as a multidisciplinary concept with the human being at its core. The social aspect of sustainable development aims at social justice which assumes participation of every individual in the act of shaping the social and economic reality. Therefore, one of the main goals of sustainable development is to prevent social exclusion which has now, at the time of the development of information and communication technology, incorporated the digital divide. The article reviews the concepts and origin of sustainable development, the origin of information society and civilisation, social exclusion including digital divide. Basing on the framework of social exclusion by Jan van Dijk and the data from the report “Social diagnosis 2015” an attempt has been made to analyse the state of digital divide in Poland. The purpose of the discussion was to present the existing reality of the digital divide across the Polish society and to draw attention to the increase of the secondary digital divide as opposed to the primary one. The secondary divide is associated with actual use of IT tools while using IT is the prerequisite of participation in the social, professional and cultural life, the qualification for participation in sustainable development from the point of view of both, individuals and countries.

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