The economy in the 21st century is dominated by technology. Almost every growing sector of the economy is connected to the use of computers, the internet or social media, whether it is the content (product or service), communication, marketing, networking, distribution or management.

Traditionally, the digital divide refers to the gap between those with access to computers or the internet and those without. However, as global internet access improves, the issue shifts to the disparity between users who are mere consumers and a small elite who are creators benefiting from the industry’s wealth.

This exacerbates the gap between the rich and the poor, those who have resources and those who don’t, those who have upward social mobility and those who don’t. This is also what many have called the social divide.

We believe that pumping resources into under-resourced communities would not halt the widening social and digital divides. To bridge the gaps, we need to bring the resourceful and under-resourced groups together to solve problems together.