The convergence of microelectronics, communications and computing technologies has given rise to new information systems, which have the ability to manipulate information rapidly in a number of ways and to deliver it speedily. This manipulative attribute of the new systems has itself given rise to new categories of services while enhancing old ones. The Internet in particular, which is at the centre of the Information Technology-mediated world, is critical to the globalization process, that is integrating the world into what is termed as the Global Electronic Village (GES).

Globalization is however, not just about Information Technology, or even the whole spectrum of technology. It is a process to socially re-engineer the world in the best interest of western capital. This is why it is supported and pro-up by a series of institutions and frameworks, notably the Bretton Woods Institutions and the World Trade Organization (WTO) that aim at ensuring the market ideology prevails in all countries.

Globalization, which is seen, as the integration of world into a single market, is therefore nothing other than the fact that multinational corporation should have free reigns in every country. Globalization is enabled by new information and communication technologies (ICTs), which have made it easy to not only move vast amount of market information and intelligence but also move capital around the world, which is necessary for the effective functioning of these corporations.

It is therefore no accident that the ownership and control of ICTs mirrors that of the ownership and control of the multinational corporations. Thus those countries that have greatest stakes in the transnational giants have also the most developed ICT infrastructure. Conscious of the importance of the ICTs in the globalization process that is promoted by the WTO, it has shaped a vision of how the ICT sector in every country is to be structured, which ensures that these multinational corporations would own and control it.

Globalization also insists on the right of manufacturers to move their capital to where labour is very cheap. Workers however have no such right to move their labour to where it is relatively more costly. The ruling class in America and European countries have been putting in place all sorts of immigration controls against the movement of non-intellectual workers of developing countries. What this means is that the workers of developing countries should remain the factory hands of western multinational corporations and leave research work to the home countries of the multinational corporations. This way, research into ICTs and other technologies could be conducted there, ever widening the gap between the developing countries and industrialized west. The result is that as they amass more ICTs, the gap in access to information society, which has come to be referred to as the digital divide, expands with all the consequences of the resurgence of imperialism, this time emblematically represented by knowledge dependence.

The central problematic of this paper is to interrogate the concept of globalization and its inseparability from information technology. We shall explore the concrete expression and dimensions of the digital divide within framework that it provides the pathways for knowledge-based imperialism. The paper then argues that while we cannot stop advances in science and technology, we should ensure that the digital divide both globally and at national levels, is bridged such that workers have un-hinder access to this important technology, which if deplored properly would be of immense assistance to the struggle against both capitalism, locally and imperialism globally.