الفجوة الرقمية العربية على شبكة الإنترنت : نظرة من خلال المحتوى الفكري و معدل النفاذ

Abstract EN

Technological and scientific progress has generated great changes in various fields, mainly the area of communication where new communication technology is significantly apparent via the Internet as a real leader.

In spite of the importance of the latter, one can notice an imbalance in the spreading of this technology throughout the world.

In fact, while this technology has become an outstanding instrument of communication and knowledge acquisition in developed countries with the provision of a great consideration, by reinforcing its intellectual content and by improving its rate use aiming at producing knowledge, exploiting and disseminating it, developing countries, among them the Arab ones, on the opposite, are very late in terms of integrating the space of this digital technique, and this can be observed through the modest access to this technology, in addition to the weak Arab intellectual content on these digital devices quantitatively and qualitatively.

This situation has led to a wide digital gap between the developed countries and the Arab ones, expressed essentially by the Internet, and illustrated by the low percentage and modest quality of the Arab content on the net, the access rate and use of this content, in addition to other aspects on the network that show clearly the continuous growth of the gap.

The digital divide on the Internet has made the situation worse for the Arab nations, since the world knowledge increases daily at a high speed, whereas the Arab language cannot cope with this growth for economic, cultural and political reasons.

Through this paper, we intend to describe the Arab situation within the digital gap on the Internet, to identify its aspects and causes, and to distinguish the parties that can reduce it providing some scientific and practical solutions that can stop the growth of this gap.