International Relations In The "digital Divide" Problem Assessment,

Since 1990's, on a global scale prompt development of Information Technology, goes deep into each fields of human society gradually. Information facilities already becomes the essential fundamental implement of human life, information knowledge becomes the fundamental content educating in every country , information strength also becomes one of the leading indicator judging synthetical strength of country , human being's daily life already can't be separated from IT. But because of various cause effect, development of IT draws popularizing also being really not neat and uniform, have led to digital divide appear gradually, have produced and important effect to international relations, have been that we have provided new research problem. And the main body of this thesis takes international overall situation as background, analyzing the digital divide's origin, form causes and their impacts on international relation with new views, seeking the countermeasure of eliminating digital divide. One aspect, this thesis aims to provide one kind of new cognition of Digital Divide by analyzing the cause of formation, effect and countermeasure. The other aspect hopes the reference being able to provide a little tactics aspect to closing digital divide. The thesis is divided into 4 parts:Part I is brief concept of digital divide. The main cause of the Digital Divide is the different ability of IT. Different country, area, industry, enterprise and people have different ability of IT. So there is a Digital Divide among them.Part II carries out comparatively detailed introduction on digital divide manifestation and cause taking form. There are 5 kind of Digital Divide. The main causes are that: different economic situation, different ability of technology, different knowledge level and different system and policy.Part III has analyzed an impact of digital divide over international relations in depth. With the appearance of the Digital Divide, the international society has changed. There is a"Matthew effect"in politics, economics, militaries and cultures. The main effects on international relations are that: it recombines the international power, makes the gap of economic among different countries larger, brings the new challenge for the national security, and makes the developed countries'cultures become the leaders.Part IV discusses several countermeasures making digital divide completely go away. Almost all of the countries have pay attention to the big divide. The developing countries have attempted several methods to close the Digital Divide. For example, they can improve their education level, make suitable policy, develop IT industry and so on.The research approach in this text uses has mainly: (1)the method to combine together in theory analysis and history; (2)The method to combine together on standardize analysis and real example analysis; (3)Compare and sum up the method to combine together; (4)Dynamic and static analysis will be combined in the mode. Various kinds of above-mentioned methods are used alternately, in order to carry on the perceptivity and analysis of different methods to different problem.