The E-Squatter: An Outlook on the Digital Divide

Abstract

Today, "Information and CommunicationTechnologies" is developing rapidly. The development, adaptation and application of technology is important for the efficiency of the administrative competitiveness between countries.These rapidly developing technologies have affected every segment of the society and brought about a problem about accessibility, and they have different reflections in different layers of society. This study first draws a general picture of urban development and squatter houses. In terms of socio-economic conditions, access level, equity, relatively low education, and income levels do not benefit from technology in terms of access to information. Since resources are not distributed equally, qualitative analysis is developed with a sample residing in two squatter houses areas, and significant differences are found that the rate of computer and internet use is high in the 16-39 age groups. How to be an information society and how to overcomedigital divide ha been discussed.