A pilot project in Fife, Scotland, did indeed provide low cost loans for unemployed people to buy a car when they found a job. Buying a car is one way of accessing non-local work. Using the electronic networks is, at least for some kinds of work, another way. The gender gap in Internet use is almost closed. Asian-Americans are now typically better connected than whites.
Wealthy people are more likely to be early adopters of everything.
But as costs of kit and connection fall, uptake is rapidly developing at all levels of society. In the US, it is the over-50s who are the fastest growing group of Internet users. The probability is that some nations, and some social groups, always be playing catch-up and always be at an economic disadvantage. The digital divide is a significant facet of social exclusion. More or less by definition it implies a lack of certain socially useful skills, and it describes factors which inhibit ambition and opportunity.