Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage

Buys, Piet; Dasgupta, Susmita; Thomas, Timothy S.; Wheeler, David

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.01.011

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“…We found that knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer amongst participants was low, yet willingness to receive HPV vaccination and willingness to vaccinate themselves and/or their child was high. Our findings also suggest that relying on cellular phones methods for modes of contact is not likely to succeed in Mali, which in 2006 had low cell phone tower coverage of 1.1% of area and 18.1% of population [39]. Moreover, questions assessing preferences on the location for receiving vaccine resulted in sample subset-specific responses; adolescents were more likely to prefer vaccination at school and females to prefer vaccination at home.…”

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A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess HPV Knowledge and HPV Vaccine Acceptability in Mali

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Despite a high prevalence of oncogenic human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer mortality, HPV vaccination is not currently available in Mali. Knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in Mali, and thereby vaccine readiness, may be limited. Research staff visited homes in a radial pattern from a central location to recruit adolescent females and males aged 12–17 years and men and women aged ≥18 years (N = 51) in a peri-urban village of Bamako, Mali. Participants took part in structured interviews assessing knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to HPV, cervical cancer, and HPV vaccination. We found low levels of HPV and cervical cancer knowledge. While only 2.0% of respondents knew that HPV is a sexually transmitted infection (STI), 100% said they would be willing to receive HPV vaccination and would like the HPV vaccine to be available in Mali. Moreover, 74.5% said they would vaccinate their child(ren) against HPV. Men were found to have significantly greater autonomy in the decision to vaccinate themselves than women and adolescents (p = 0.005), a potential barrier to be addressed by immunization campaigns. HPV vaccination would be highly acceptable if the vaccine became widely available in Bamako, Mali. This study demonstrates the need for a significant investment in health education if truly informed consent is to be obtained for HPV vaccination. Potential HPV vaccination campaigns should provide more information about HPV and the vaccine. Barriers to vaccination, including the significantly lower ability of the majority of the target population to autonomously decide to get vaccinated, must also be addressed in future HPV vaccine campaigns.

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“…Infrastructural correlates have manifested themselves as investment variables (for telecom, in Oyelaran-Oyeynka and Lal 2005), installation and maintenance costs for cellphone towers (Buys et al 2009), and supply of electrical power as well as other infrastructure that was crucial for ICT development and adoption in Ghana (Ewusi-Mensah 2012). 3.…”

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“…Several studies have focused on sub-regions of Africa, most notably sub-Saharan Africa (Buys et al 2009;Rhine 2006;Ojedokun and Lumande 2005;Gyamfi 2005), or on ICT development, policies, practices, and impacts of specific African nations or provinces within a nation as examples (Mbatha et al 2011;Bankole et al 2011;Alemna and Sam 2006); but only a handful of studies such as Fuchs and Horak (2008) and have examined aspects of Africa's digital divide at the country level. Several studies have focused on sub-regions of Africa, most notably sub-Saharan Africa (Buys et al 2009;Rhine 2006;Ojedokun and Lumande 2005;Gyamfi 2005), or on ICT development, policies, practices, and impacts of specific African nations or provinces within a nation as examples (Mbatha et al 2011;Bankole et al 2011;Alemna and Sam 2006); but only a handful of studies such as Fuchs and Horak (2008) and have examined aspects of Africa's digital divide at the country level.…”

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“…This makes it impossible to observe intra-country and/ intra-regional variations that could be insightful for intra-country patterns and policy interventions. Buys et al (2009) conducted a spatial-econometric analysis of determinants of the digital divide, based on cell phone (towers) in 41 African countries. They found that spatial factors such as distance to main road, distance to the nearest city, elevation, slope and population are strong determinants of cell phone (tower) diffusion in African countries.…”

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Spatial analysis of urban digital divide in Kigali, Rwanda

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Access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and its potentials for cities are often uneven across geographies and demographics, a condition that has been referred to as the digital divide. Given the invisibility of digital access, certain geo-demographic groups could face the risk of digital exclusion. However, where not aspatial, most studies explore the digital divide at macro-spatial levels (national and regional levels), which makes them less relevant for knowledge generation and policies at intra-urban scales, the actual hubs of innovations. This paper explores the state of ICT access in Kigali City, at an intra-urban level. It analyses official census data on ICT Access Indicators across dimensions and space, 35 administrative areas called sectors. The paper establishes the relative digital access performance of the sectors based on the measurement of their ICT Location Quotients. In Kigali City spatial distribution of ICT access is significantly clustered, with areas of concentration at the core and sparsity on the northeastern periphery of the city. This espouses spatialitydigitality relations. Using data reduction, we establish that existing urban inequality in infrastructure, urban agglomerative strength, planning status and household socio-economic status are replicated as correlates of the digital divide in Kigali City. We recommend that the baseline spatial-statistical analysis be applied for spatially-targeted ICT policy interventions and that the dimension of ICT be incorporated in policy making targeting urban inequality.

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Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage

Cited by 133 publications

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A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess HPV Knowledge and HPV Vaccine Acceptability in Mali

A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess HPV Knowledge and HPV Vaccine Acceptability in Mali

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Spatial analysis of urban digital divide in Kigali, Rwanda

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