BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY WITH REFERENCE TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Computer networks are widely used in digital work across the globe, and easy access to the world wide web has led to widespread information of all the digital form sectors. In digital form, such abundance of information has given so many benefits to the countries such as publishing, creating, using, distributing, and reusing has become so easy compared to the past decades. Therefore, the good thing is the information enrichment, which benefits the people as individuals and society as a whole. However, the bad news is it also to misuse and illegally copying, distributing, and using of information illegally. Therefore, the paper aims to address the international intellectual Property (IP) treaties and agreements, which led to the digital divide in the digital economy. Qualitative data analysis is used in this paper as a research method to define the concept of the digital divide in the context of the digital economy and illustrate the role of IP in the digital world. The research also sheds light on stakeholders' perspectives in order to stem the digital economy. The researcher also explores this digital divide's reasons while looking at gaps between policies and their implementation in the digital world. The research comes to an end while concluding that all the IP agreements and policies have failed in their implementation, which has further widened this digital gap. Qualitative research methodology has been applied to the following article.