High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Digital divide in the United States refers to actual or perceived inequalities between individuals, households, and other groups of different demographic and socioeconomic levels in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and inequalities in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained from connecting. The Global digital divide refers to inequalities in access, knowledge, and skills, but designates countries as the units of analysis and examines the divide between developing and developed countries on an international scale.