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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"digital divide"”.
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Systems Thinking Applied to Digital Divide
… of the internet that could enable them with it. "Digital Divide" is a term that is commonly thrown around for multiple reasons. There is a lack of standardization and vocabulary that limits collaboration and creates barriers to entry for new entrants, let alone awareness among others who have not …
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Mobile retrospective : shrinking the digital divide
The concept of the digital divide is a condition in the urban context where informationalization via computer technology exacerbates a duality that consists of those who have access to information technologies, and those who do not. The resultant outcome is a marginalized community left behind - a …
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Communication Unplugged: A Qualitative Analysis of the Digital Divide
… analysis in this dissertation indicate that the Digital Divide is still an issue in the 21st century. Through participant observation, narratives and interviews over a four-year period, the results signify a discursive disconnect between policymakers and community leaders, and the …
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Bridging the Rural - Urban Digital Divide in Residential Internet Access
… at home (a discrepancy commonly known as the "digital divide"). The theoretical framework underlying a household's Internet adoption decision is examined, with emphasis on the roles that household characteristics, network externalities, and digital communication technology (DCT) infrastructure …
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Internet Use Among African American College Students: Psychosocial Correlates of the Digital Divide
An exploratory study was conducted examining Internet usage among African-American college students. The study examined both psychosocial correlates, including technological anxiety and racial identity as well as socioeconomic measures, as they impacted Internet usage. Additionally, three distinct …
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Pick Yourself Up By Your Broadband: Access, the Digital Divide, and Migrant Workers
<p>This dissertation proposes a process called <em>pizarron borrado: </em>reorienting “failure” as a productive part of the research process. Using the backdrop of research on migrant workers’ technological access, I argue that classrooms can become much more accessible by moving from failure and …
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Vital Voices from the Digital Divide: Testimonies of African American Women Leadership Across Tech
<p>Many organizations seek to highlight diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, but African American women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership roles within the workplace (McKinsey, 2023). Within the technology (i.e., tech) space, there is concern regarding the inclusivity of …
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Overcoming the digital divide? : Africa and the information society with special reference to Lesotho
… and whether the Internet is creating another divide - the digital divide. A historical sequence of meetings, conferences and events that have attempted to include Mrica in the information society is outlined. Statistics of telecommunication and Internet provision in Africa are included. These …
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An Investigation Into Grassroots Initiated Networked Communities As A Means Of Addressing The Digital Divide
… of government and commercial intervention, a digital divide persists in the UK. Access to internet connectivity and the associated tools and services that permit full participation in the information society greatly varies. Researchers argue that a more complex set of insufficiencies must be …
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The digital divide in South Africa : identifying emerging inequalities in Internet access and online public spheres
This thesis is an investigation into the digital divide in South Africa. Its main aim is to present for the first time an analysis of South African Internet access and Internet users, in the context of existing digital divide theory. Four possible models of digital divides will be tested by …
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Digital Divide: Investigating the integration of marketing and ICTs for South African retailers expanding throughout Africa
Information Communication Technologies are increasingly used in organisations’ market expansion strategies. These Information communication technologies provide organisations with opportunities such as ease of communication and movement of resources, making the entry into new markets a faster and …
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Aluta continua! digital divide experiences of South African township high school learners during COVID-19 hard lockdown
This research emphasises that the digital divide is a significant human development issue. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the stringent lockdown measures accentuated the challenges faced by many underserved learners in transitioning to remote education due to limited access to digital resources and …
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A paradox of the second order digital divide in higher education institutions of developing countries: case of Zimbabwe
… the literature has often associated the digital divide (second order or otherwise) with sociodemographic, sociocultural and socioeconomical factors as reasons for the digital divide. However, there is little presence in the literature into the underlying structures (physical or abstract …
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The Digital Divide: A Study of the Intra-Ethnic Divide within the African American Population in Johnson City, Tennessee.
… <p>Results from the study revealed that a digital divide existed within the African American community, with income being a strong determinant of access to computers. The highest level of access for the sample was in the salary range of $50,000-74,999. Computer access at home was 95.2% and …
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Assessing the African mobile telephony boom : the impact of the mobile phone and its relationship to the digital divide
… telephony has had on the bridging of a broader digital divide, conceived of in terms of inequalities in access to information and communication technologies between Africa and the rest of the world, as well within Africa itself. It concludes that the boom in mobile telephony has had far-reaching …
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A longitudinal study of co-diffusion between personal computers and global Internet diffusion: An approach to bridging the digital divide
… can be used in setting policies to close the digital divide. Several studies have been conducted in an effort to narrow the digital divide. The conceptual framework for most of the previous studies has been finding the main determinants of Internet penetration, and leveraging them across the …
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Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries: a case study of the DRC cities in Kinshasa and Kananga
The digital divide is largely seen as the main problem that developing economies and societies must overcome to gain economic productivity and social welfare. In this document we state that modern western perception of the digital divide lured advancement of ICT into developing countries especially …
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