digitale Kluft

German

Etymology

digitale (“digital”) +‎ Kluft (“chasm, rift”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [diɡiˈtaːlə ˈklʊft]
  • Hyphenation: di‧gi‧ta‧le‧Kluft

Noun

digitale Kluft f (genitive digitale Kluft, plural digitale Kluften)

  1. (sociology, politics, economics) digital divide (the gulf between those who have ready access to computers and the internet, and those who do not)
    In ländlichen Gebieten vertieft die mangelnde Breitbandanbindung die digitale Kluft.
    In rural areas, the lack of broadband connectivity deepens the digital divide.

Synonyms

  • Digital Divide (anglicism, very common in academic contexts)
  • digitale Spaltung (digital split)

Antonyms

  • digitale Teilhabe (digital participation/inclusion)
  • digitale Inklusion (digital inclusion)

Coordinate terms

  • Breitbandausbau (expansion of broadband; a technical solution)
  • Medienkompetenz (media literacy; a cognitive solution)
  • Informationsgesellschaft (the context in which this rift occurs)
  • Wissensgesellschaft (where the rift becomes a knowledge gap)
  • digitalisiert (digitalized)
  • klaffen (to gape/yawn, as in a gap)
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