Cyberoptimists


 * Cyber optimists**


 * In the Digital Divide**


 * **Global Divide** || **Social Divide** || **Democratic Divide** ||
 * feel that technology can eradicate poverty in developing countries || hope that post-industrial societies will join the techological innovation, markets and state. || think more direct democracy may be practiced in the form of political chat rooms, electronic voting, mobilization of virtual communities, etc. ||

See also: democratic divide, cyber-pessimists


 * Works Cited**

Norris, Pippa (2000). Digital Divide: Civic Engagment, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 1-22.