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Business Studies · Ch 5 — Emerging Modes of Business

Need for technology capability and competence of parties to e-business

5.4.3

Need for technology capability and competence of parties to e-business

Apart from the traditional three R's — Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic — e-business requires a fairly high degree of familiarity with computers. This requirement gives rise to what is known as the digital divide: the division of society on the basis of familiarity versus non-familiarity with digital technology. Those without the necessary technological …