Factors Contributing to Global Digital Divide: Some Empirical Results

Bagchi, Kallol

doi:10.1080/1097198x.2005.10856402

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“…In addition, countries with different gross national income (GNI) levels have different ICT development paths. The study conducted by Bagchi (2005) investigated the factors that contributed to the problem of digital divide in the global community with the value of information technology index including four different resources of IT data (the Internet, PC, Cell phone and telephone) [25]. The study used cross sectional and time-series methods and with a large set of variables that may affect the cross-country divide.…”

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Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Almajali¹,

Maqableh²,

Masa'deh³

2015

IJCNS

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This study investigates the status of digital divide amongst Jordanian Telecentres. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of the perceived usefulness, the perceived ease-of-use and the facilitating conditions on the behavioral intention of employees. In addition, the study investigates the effect of the three mentioned factors on the user acceptance while the behavioral intention on the user acceptance is used as a mediating factor. The proposed research model was validated by distributing 150 survey questionnaires to the Telecentres in Jordan. Structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was used to analyze the results. One of the main limitations of this study is that the results cannot be universal since the study was limited to Jordan. Similar study needs to be conducted in different courtiers to either support or negate our results.

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Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Almajali¹,

Maqableh²,

Masa'deh³

2015

IJCNS

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“…Two of the ITU variables, personal computers per 100 people (PC100) and Internet users per 100 people (IU100), have been used in previous studies focusing on the digital divide (Bagchi, 2005;Chinn and Fairlie, 2007;Deichmann et al, 2007). PC100 is thought to be highly correlated with GDP per capita and used as a surrogate measure of economic diffusion.…”

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“…Other influences include the level of political openness (Crenshaw and Robinson, 2007) and social policies (Bagchi, 2005). In the existing literature focusing on the global digital divide, variables investigated include teledensity, Internet access, infrastructure access (Sharma and Gupta, 2003), education and trade (Deichmann et al, 2007).…”

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“…Studies focusing on the former seek to identify the variables that assist or hinder the diffusion (c.f., Rogers, 2001) and for the latter tend to look at the gap between developed and developing countries (Bagchi, 2005). Deichmann et al (2007) propose that studying the digital divide is important because of the link between Internet connectivity and the economic and social wellbeing of a population and to facilitate the development of policies to improve the economic and social well-being of that population.…”

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Mapping the global digital divide

White

Gunasekaran

Shea

et al. 2011

IJBIS

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The global digital divide as a concept is intuitively understood by most academicians, politicians and public policy makers. However, to date little empirical work exists to explain differences in per country access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The research that does exists places heavy influence on the impact of country wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, on the diffusion of ICTs. While GDP per capita certainly influences the diffusion of ICTs within a country, it is not the sole determinant of a country's location versus other countries vis-a-vis the global digital divide.To investigate and map the global digital divide, as it currently exists, the authors utilize modelbased cluster analysis to determine cohorts of countries based on three variables: personal computers The results indicate that the global digital divide consists of four tiers. And although all of the developed countries are included in the first tier, some surprising results are obtained. Implications of the results are discussed and directions for future research are provided.

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“…South America has 4% of the world's online population (Bagchi, 2005). In 1998, 4% of Spanish households had Internet access (Nairn, 1999).…”

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Spanish web searching tools: An exploratory study

Morales-Arroyo

Chang

Sánchez-Guerrero

et al. 2007

Proc of Assoc for Info

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Internet use is linked to telecommunications infrastructure, steady economic development, and country's wealth (Hawkins, 2003). The development of digital infrastructure has been slow in many parts of Latin America, because of the lack of telecom structure, a low per capita GDP, and economic and/or political instability. However, there is an opportunity for growth in Latin American markets. Several governments are initiating digital development programs (Anonymous, 2006). Independent from these infrastructure developments in the Spanish speaking countries, a key issue is the growth of the Spanish language Web. In this paper we report results from a study examining the extent and functionality of Spanish language Web search engines. Related StudiesLimited research has analyzed Spanish language Web search engines. Studies have examined the extent and functionality of the major English-based Web search engines, including multimedia Web search engines (Tjondronegoro & Spink, 2006;Spink and Jansen, 2004). Studies have found that most Web searches are short, and include 2 to 3 words per query, and queries per search (Spink & Jansen, 2004).Technologies for non-English Web searching are not as mature as those developed for searching English content (Chung, et al., 2004). However, multi-language support is not new for major US Web search engines. Searches using Spanish and English languages are not so different. However, there are differences beyond grammatical issues. At this moment major Web search engines available do not distinguish those details. For example, the use of stress and the letter (ñ). However, that is not a significant difference for the searching algorithms.Some differences exist between the Spanish speaking Web users in United States and the typical American user. Some 15 million of Spanish speaking people logged onto the Internet in January and viewed 122.5 pages per day more than the average of 120.5 pages per day. They tend to be more connected with their communities, have a tendency to spend a little more time on-line, and browse for entertainment and news from their home country.Although they are interested in content significant to their culture, they are interested in what is happening in the world (Chandler, 2006). Some use Internet telephones or look for products they cannot find in the States (Gómez, 2005). Unfortunately, limited studies have examined Web search tools that support Spanish speaking users within and outside the United States. Research QuestionsOur research goal was to explore the level of Spanish Web searching tools and evaluate their functionality. The specific research questions examined were:What Web searching tools are available to Spanish speaking users? 1.What are the features of these tools? 2.What are the web search engine restrictions? 3.What are the functionalities of multimedia Web search engines that allow searching in Spanish? 4. Research Design Data CollectionWe first identified 72 Web searching tools via searchengineguide.com (2006). Some links were broken and we...

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Factors Contributing to Global Digital Divide: Some Empirical Results

Cited by 97 publications

References 16 publications

Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Mapping the global digital divide

Spanish web searching tools: An exploratory study

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