Accelerating internet penetration to rural areas: A government-sponsored internet-kiosks deployment project in Garut Regency, West Java of Indonesia

Kurniawan, Adit; Zakia, Irma; Wartika, Enok; Austin, A.G.

doi:10.1109/tssa.2015.7440425

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“…We noticed that the literacy rate has a significant and positive influence on internet penetration and the urban population. These findings are in tune with the past studies that positively link literacy with high internet penetration (Vincent, 2016) and urbanization (Kurniawan et al. , 2015).…”

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confidence: 90%

“…For developing as well as the developed countries, the internet is widely used communication technology. Internet penetration has been associated with the GDPPC growth rate for developing countries (Geovanny and Suarez, 2008;Kurniawan et al, 2015). It is also observed that not only the GDPPC has a positive influence on internet penetration, rather the internet penetration also boosts the GDP of a country (Asongu and Odhiambo, 2020).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…A higher literate country will have a higher internet penetration (Vincent, 2016). It is observed that the internet penetration depends upon the economic parameters like literacy rate and urbanization (Kurniawan et al, 2015;Vincent, 2016), but it is also observed that a higher literacy rate calls for higher usage of the internet, thereby increasing the internet penetration. A higher literacy rate is associated with the higher usage of gadgets and gizmos, which in a way leads to higher e-waste production (Popli et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Examining country development indicators and e-waste under the moderating effect of country development levels and e-waste policy

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Mladenović

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate if country development indicators, i.e. gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC), literacy rate, internet penetration and urban population, influence the generation of e-waste on a global level. The moderation effect due to differences between countries in terms of absence or presence of e-waste policy and level of development is also checked.Design/methodology/approachThis is an archival study that builds upon data from United Nations (UN), World Bank and Global E-waste Statistics Partnership. The authors did a path analysis comprising mediation and multigroup analyses to decipher the proposed rese arch model containing data from 172 countries.FindingsThe results indicate that GDPPC, literacy rate, internet penetration and urban population do not directly influence the generation of e-waste. However, higher internet penetration in developing countries leads to higher e-waste, while higher literacy rates in developed countries suppress e-waste generation. When it comes to e-waste policy, a higher urban population without a regulatory legal framework boosts higher e-waste. The authors observed that higher internet penetration leads to higher e-waste in the presence of e-waste policy as well.Originality/valueThis is the first study to include economic well-being indicators in elaborating e-waste generation, on a global scale. No previous study has observed differences between countries nested in e-waste policy and level of development.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%