Digital Divide & Equity
The gap between those who have access to ICT and those who do not
What is Digital Divide?
The license that allows creators to keep their copyright but give others permission to share and use their work.
What is Creative Commons?
Information about a person that can be used to identify them, such as a social security number or medical history.
What is PII (Personally Identifiable Information)?
A model where multiple computers work together on a single large problem (eg., analysis of satellite data).
What is Distributed Computing?
Unintended gathering of huge amounts of the data of a user, often used to create specialized "profiles" for ads.
What is Data Mining?
What are two factors that contribute to the digital divide
What is household income, geographic location, age, socioeconomic status, education and digital literacy?
Software that is distributed with its source code, making it available for use, modification, and distribution.
What is Open Source?
A security system that requires two or more separate, distinct forms of identification to access an account.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA/2FA)?
What is Crowdfunding?
The ability of a program to "learn" from data and improve without being explicitly programmed.
What is Machine Learning (or AI)?
Scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists via the internet.
What is Citizen Science?
The status of a work when its copyright expires, making it free for anyone to use for any purpose.
What is the Public Domain?
A type of encryption that uses a "public key" for encryption and a "private key" for decryption.
What is Asymmetric Encryption?
Small text files stored on your computer by websites to remember who you are, keep you logged in, and track your browsing habits to build a profile of what you like to buy.
What are HTTP Cookies?
Collection of massive amounts of data that is analyzed by computers to find patterns or predict future behaviors.
What is Big Data?
The practice of obtaining input or services by enlisting the services of a large number of people via the internet.
What is Crowdsourcing?
This 1998 US law makes it illegal to produce and spread the technology that is able or intended to bypass copy protection (DRM).
What is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)?
A digital attack where the attacker sends a false message to trick a person into revealing sensitive information, thinking it is a real message.
What is Phishing?
This "right" is the idea that a person should be able to control their online data and have it removed.
What is the Right to be Forgotten?
A type of software that is designed to be shared and modified by the public, allowing developers everywhere to collaborate and improve the code for free.
What is Open Source Software?
This occurs when a computing system prioritizes certain groups or outcomes over others, often due to flawed training data?
What is Algorithmic Bias?
This makes peer-reviewed scientific research free to access online.
What is Open Access?
A type of surveillance software that records every letter pressed on a keyboard.
What is a Keylogger?
This internet feature allows for free speech but can also lead to cyberbullying because the identities of users are hidden.
What is Anonymity?
A digital trail or permanent record of everything you have ever done online, from old social media posts to search history, which can be seen by future employers.
What is a Digital Footprint?