مجتمع المعلومات و الفجوة الرقمية في الدول العربية

Abstract EN

At the beginning of the 21st century Human societies has a pass, new stage of social and economic development, characterized with worldwide Proliferation levels of information and communication technology (ICT).

But the level development of (ICT) differs between countries and their evolution and transformation to becoming an information society.

The differences between countries in becoming an information society is described as "The Digital Divide.

" The digital divide is defined as "the gap between individuals, countries and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels to their opportunities to access information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to their use of the Internet for a wide variety of activities.

The digital divide is usually measured in terms of people’s access to ICTs.

Penetration levels of mobile cellular subscriptions, Internet users and personal computers.

One approach to analyzing the global digital divide is to look at the differences in information society developments between developed and developing countries, The IDI provides a useful tool for monitor They digital divide, this tool combines 11 indicators into a single index of ICT development aspects in both developed and developing countries.

This Research tries to monitor the digital divide between Arab counties and developed economy and Price Basket of