Twitter: @elijahryoung

Website/Blog: www.socialtalklive.com

Bio

Serial Entreprenuer, and Business Strategist. Elijah has been involved in the startup of 18 businesses, and teaches entrepreneurship to teens and adults through his company Young University. Elijah is currently the Co-Founder of Social Talk Live, a social training company giving clear direction to brand on how to not only strategize, but implement their social campaigns online.

How can we use technology to close the digital divide?

I’m already seeing entrepreneurs decreasing the digital divide in two ways. First, by creating low cost mobile carriers, lower income families are getting the benefit of broadband mobile internet as an affordable price. Second, these carriers are starting to release smartphones on their networks, so now the vehicle for mobile browsing is beginning to spread through communities that haven’t had access.

The digital divide is closing quickly through innovation and competition within the mobile markets especially. Countries have chosen to completely skip the ‘laptop’ age that the US has gone through and utilize mobile to bring their countries up to speed in much less time than it would have taken if they had followed the US’s lead with the laptop age.