Exercises: Socioeconomic, regional and gender

Explain the three dimensions of the digital divide with a Mexican example for each one: think of the cost of mobile data compared to family income (socioeconomic), a rural locality without coverage (regional) and who usually owns a personal device inside some households (gender).

In one municipality, 78% of urban households have internet at home and 31% of rural ones do. Calculate the difference in percentage points and explain two educational consequences of that gap for students in rural areas, for example when homework is posted only online.

A young woman from a community in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca shares a cell phone with her siblings, has a limited data plan and dreams of studying programming. Analyze how the three dimensions of the digital divide reinforce each other in her case and propose one intervention (at school, municipal or community level) that tackles two dimensions at once.