Global connectivity is at an all-time high, and more users than ever before are participating in the online ecosystem. Despite this exciting phenomenon, opportunities to access the online world are not shared equally among the global population. Socioeconomic, political, and geographic factors all play roles in determining the extent to which one can be an online participant [1] . This resultant digital divide creates a social disparity between those who have reliable access to online content and can take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer and those who do not and miss out on those opportunities [2] .

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弥合数字鸿沟：成功取决于内容提供商和应用程序开发人员的参与

全球连通性空前高，参与在线生态系统的用户比以往任何时候都多。尽管出现了这种令人兴奋的现象，但在全球人群中，访问网络世界的机会并不平等。社会经济，政治和地理因素均在确定人们可以成为在线参与者的程度中发挥作用[1] 。由此产生的数字鸿沟在那些能够可靠访问在线内容并可以利用互联网所提供的一切的人们与那些没有机会错过这些机会的人们之间造成了社会差距。[2] 。