ABSTRACT
This chapter explores surrounds questions of “digital diversity”. Digital diversity is at once a fact and an unrealized promise. The Internet is a vast web of words, images and sounds created by millions of people all around the globe, and thus certainly reflect a very diverse range of cultures and ideas. Digital resources form an area frequently overlooked in inclusion projects, often because the proponents are already so engaged with online life, so aware of its riches, that they forget others must be introduced to and convinced of the value of being online. A number of critics have noted that this amounts to a kind of linguistic or cultural imperialism at odds with a fair and balanced online world. Human resources consist of people who can provide proper training in the techno-literacies needed to successfully access and explore online worlds.
