Benefits and Drawbacks
There are quite a lot of advantages for narrowing the divide, if the economic digital divide is narrowed it would insure people all over the world are able to use technology not only just to communicate with one another but are able to know about things happening in the outer world, the things they would never hear about normally. The MEDC’s already know the state of the poorer countries but if this divide was to narrow the LEDC’s would know more about the richer countries. Although this is a great benefit there is always a at least the smallest drawback with the best of things. If everyone were to start using technologies people would have less time interacting face to face and this could in fact lead people to laziness to not go out and meet up with friends and could cause a lot of health and stress related problems but nevertheless, the people in the poorer countries would have been used to communicating the old fashioned way so it wouldn't really affect them so much meaning the narrowing of the economic digital divide would be of a great benefit.