Educational Equity Issues and Governance Paths in the Context of the Digital Divide

The rapid development of digital technologies has brought opportunities and challenges to educational equity, with threefold divides—"access, usage, and capability"—emergin g in their diffusion process. Driven by policies and capital, technology diffusion surges initially but stalls when enetrating rural areas and vulnerable groups due to lagging infrastructure and insufficient digital literacy.Significant behavioral differences exist among groups: urban advantaged groups, as innovators and early adopters, reap technological dividends, while rural and vulnerable groups, as late majority and laggards, fall into a vicious cycle of "device-scarcity - literacy-deficiency - resource-isolation". To promote balanced technology diffusion, multi-dimensional approaches are needed in infrastructure, literacy cultivation, and institutional safeguards, embedding equity concepts to break the "digital divide - educational imbalance" chain and advance educational equity.