소외계층 정보복지 활성화를 위한 정책의 개선방향

Abstract

Abstract Since the internet plays important role in our life due to its Innumerable amount of information, even ordinary person is asked for having sufficient internet skills on several situations. Because information becomes an indispensable resource in modern society from everyday life routine to complex problem, however, the informatization fetches digital divide between the digitally capable group and the digitally challenged group. Especially, Korean disadvantaged have even lower motive concerning internet skills and wider gap from the amount of available information in their daily life. To close this gap, this study focuses on following three variables in information welfare for disadvantaged: improving current policy, making new policy, enhancing relationship property of internet. While improving does not support information welfare, making new one supports it. It seems that current policy focuses on distributing information technology only over 20 years which on the contrary to actual needs in information society. Meanwhile, relationship property of internet also supports information welfare which connects disadvantaged and the other citizens, in terms of stimulating social participation of them.