Research Paper on:
International Inequalities and the 'Digital Divide'

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growing wider and deeper every day. In an almost countless number of ways, technology is the single thing that can challenge fundamental assumptions about how people behave in society, in  business, and in the marketplace. Numerous factors must be considered in terms of the factors that drive a companys ability to compete in the marketplace: access to capital; the education  and training of the available work force; the legal and regulatory environment in which the organization operates; and its ability to market, to distribute, and to trade around the world.  However, the point is repeatedly made that even when certain technologies are introduced in a developing nation as the result of some form of a "strategic alliance" or partnership, it  is often to the advantage of the technologically advanced entity. For example, a transnational corporation placing a high tech production facility in a least developed nation in order to make  an enormous profit on its products. A literature review is presented with commentary and overall analysis made regarding the issue of the inequalities of the digital divide. Introduction When one  thinks of the great chasms that exist on Earth, one most often thinks of the natural topographical features such as the deepest part of the ocean -- the Mariana Trench  -- or of a yawning abyss on land such as the Grand Canyon. And yet, a much larger chasm is forming that will ultimately prove out to be a far  deeper divide than anything on the planet. That divide is the one that exists between the technological "haves" and the "have-nots." It can be (and has been) called the "digital  divide." No one can legitimately dispute the fact that there are, quite literally, billions of people in the developing world who live in miserable states of poverty.