Which of the following actions is most likely to help reduce the digital divide? A
Adding a requirement that all users of a popular social media site link their accounts with a phone number,
B
Deploying satellites and other infrastructure to provide inexpensive Internet access to remote areas of Earth
С
Digitizing millions of books from university libraries, making their full text available online
Offering improved Internet connections to Internet users who are willing to pay a premium fee for more bandwidth

The digital divide refers to the gap between those able to benefit from the digital age and those who are not.[1][2] The concern is that people without access to the Internet and other information and communication technologies will be disadvantaged, as they are unable or less able to obtain digital information, shop online, participate democratically, or learn skills and offer skills. This resulted in programs to give computers and related services to people without access.

Since the 1990s, a potent global movement, including a series of intergovernmental summit meetings, were conducted to "close the digital divide". Since then, this movement formulated solutions in public policy, technology design, finance and management that would allow all connected citizens to benefit equitably as a global digital economy spreads into the far corners of the world population.[3][4] Though originally coined to refer merely to the matter of access—who is connected to the Internet and isn't—the term digital-divide has evolved to focus on the division between those who benefit from Information and Communication Technology and those who are not.[5] Thus, the aim of “closing the digital divide” now refers to efforts to provide meaningful access to Internet infrastructures, applications and services. The matter of closing the digital divide nowadays includes the matter of how emergent technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (so-called AI4D[6]), robotics and Internet of things can help societies.[7] As it has become clear that the Internet can harm as well as help citizens, the focus of closing the digital divide had focused on the matter of how to generate "net benefit"[8] (optimal help minimal harm) as a result of the impact of a spreading digital economy.[9]

The divide between differing countries or regions of the world is referred to as the global digital divide,[10][11] examining this technological gap between developing and developed countries on an international scale.[12] The divide within countries (such as the digital divide in the United States) may refer to inequalities between individuals, households, businesses, or geographic areas, usually at different socioeconomic levels or other demographic categories.