Analysis of smartphone adoption and usage in a rural community cellular network

Heimerl, Kurtis; Menon, Anuvind; Hasan, Shaddi; Ali, Kashif; Brewer, Eric; Parikh, Tapan S.

doi:10.1145/2737856.2737880

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“…People in rural areas have to pay a "rural penalty" to use the same services as people in urban areas (Hindman, 2000), because lower densities and greater distances discourage the market from investing in new technologies in rural areas (Malecki, 2003;Whitacre & Mills, 2007). Nonetheless, rapid diffusion of cheaper smartphones or cellphones has improved physical access to the Internet, even in developing countries (Heimerl, Menon, Hasan, Ali, Brewer, & Parikh, 2015). As such, with the progress in technology penetration, the study of the digital divide must expand its focus beyond access, as studied in developed countries.…”

Section: Ict Use In Rural Areas Of Developing Countriesmentioning

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Challenges for the next level of digital divide in rural Indonesian communities

Onitsuka

Hidayat

Huang

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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In recent years, information and communication technology (ICT) has rapidly spread across the globe, along with increased market penetration and easy availability of economical smartphones and cellphones with both wired and nonwired connections to access the Internet; this leapfrogging in the Internet access is true even in the rural areas of the world's developing countries. Indonesia has the largest population of Internet users even though the Internet penetration rate is still under the regional average among Southeast Asian countries. To date, however, scholarly discourse on ICT use in rural communities in developing countries has, for the most part, been limited to the conventional discussion regarding the gap that exists between the “haves” and the “have nots,” often referred to as the digital divide. The current study applies a contemporary conceptualization of digital divide to the case of a rural village in Indonesia with a growing young population to arrive at policy recommendations for using ICT to improve this village as a possible model for other rural communities in developing countries. Semistructured interviews and a questionnaire survey were conducted targeting digital natives, identifying a gap in Internet use between younger and older residents within the digital natives. The study then applied a model that examined a succession of 4 types of access—motivational access, material access, skills access, and usage access—for respondents who were grouped by age and level of Internet use. This analysis combined with an examination of the Internet paradox revealed the positive effects of Internet use on community participation and networking. Analysis also indicated distinctive challenges for each group at multiple stages of the digital divide, leading to policy recommendations for each group to take advantage of Internet technology for future rural development in the case study village and for possible use as a model for other rural areas of developing countries around the world.

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Section: Ict Use In Rural Areas Of Developing Countriesmentioning

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Challenges for the next level of digital divide in rural Indonesian communities

Onitsuka

Hidayat

Huang

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…First, regions prone to weather-related disasters were identified in each country to elicit responses from individuals who had disaster-related experience, an important motivator of citizens' preparedness for disasters owing to an enhanced sense of risk (Helslott and Ruitenberg, 2004). Next, urban and rural areas were identified as the sites in which to recruit survey respondents within the selected regions, based on the preliminary understanding that adoption and use of mobile technology were different among rural and urban inhabitants in these four countries (Akhtar and Arinto, 2009;Heimerl et al, 2015). The World Bank's general definition of rural-urban areas was referenced: it suggests that rural areas are characterised by low population density and remoteness, and usually face developmental challenges (Chomitz, Buys, and Thomas, 2005).…”

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“…The study by Choo and Nadarajah (2014) revealed that, compared to their rural counterparts, suburban dwellers were more likely to report giving thought or intending to respond to early warning on bushfires, or to have emergency plans in place. In rural areas of the four countries under review, especially remote poor areas, feature phones are still the norm, even though the number of smartphone users has increased, particularly in urban parts of Indonesia and Vietnam (Akhtar and Arinto, 2009;Heimerl et al, 2015). In rural areas of the four countries under review, especially remote poor areas, feature phones are still the norm, even though the number of smartphone users has increased, particularly in urban parts of Indonesia and Vietnam (Akhtar and Arinto, 2009;Heimerl et al, 2015).…”

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“…People who do not have sufficient access, capacity, or motivation to use smartphone features (Van Dijk, 2006), especially those living in rural areas, might use the basic functions of mobile technology to look for and share information on disasters. In rural areas of the four countries under review, especially remote poor areas, feature phones are still the norm, even though the number of smartphone users has increased, particularly in urban parts of Indonesia and Vietnam (Akhtar and Arinto, 2009;Heimerl et al, 2015). This reasoning about rural-urban divides with regard to mobile technology use leads to the following hypotheses (H3a and H3b):…”

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Digital disparities and vulnerability: mobile phone use, information behaviour, and disaster preparedness in Southeast Asia

2018

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This paper proposes an ecological view to investigate how disparities in mobile technology use reflect vulnerabilities in communities vis-à-vis disaster preparedness. Data (n=1,603) were collected through a multi-country survey conducted equally in rural and urban areas of Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam, where mobile technology has become a dominant and ubiquitous communication and information medium. The findings show that smartphone users' routinised use of mobile technology and their risk perception are significantly associated with disaster preparedness behaviour indirectly through disaster-related information sharing. In addition to disaster-specific social support, smartphone users' disaster-related information repertoires are another strong influencing factor. In contrast, non-smartphone users are likely to rely solely on receipt of disaster-specific social support as the motivator of disaster preparedness. The results also reveal demographic and rural-urban differences in disaster information behaviour and preparedness. Given the increasing shift from basic mobile phone models to smartphones, the theoretical and policy-oriented implications of digital disparities and vulnerability are discussed.

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“…In 2014, global smartphone adoption rates are growing up to over 24% in 2014, with usage increasing 25% [1]. As the popularity of the smartphones is increasing, the number of pedestrians getting involved in accidents with vehicles while using their smartphones is also increasing.…”

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POFS: A novel pedestrian-oriented forewarning system for vulnerable pedestrian safety

Liu

Meng

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE)

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As the popularity of the smartphone is increasing, the number of people getting involved in accidents with vehicles while using their smartphones is also increasing. Pedestrians divert their attention from walking because of the attraction of smartphone, which causes the accidents. It is critical to design a pedestrian-oriented system to alert the pedestrian smartphone users to imminent dangers while they are immersed in their smartphones. In this paper, a novel Pedestrian-Oriented Forewarning System (POFS) is proposed to protect the distracted vulnerable pedestrians. POFS divides the states of smartphone into four kinds: screen-centric state, voice-centric state, screen-voice state and silent state, and provides the adaptive alert mode on the basis of specific state. An on board unit (OBU) which can achieve IEEE 802.11p and the traditional Wi-Fi protocols is proposed to support the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication at the same time. An efficient collision estimation algorithm is proposed to provide reliable alert for pedestrian. Experimental studies show that POFS can alert the pedestrian using the efficient alert.

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Analysis of smartphone adoption and usage in a rural community cellular network

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Challenges for the next level of digital divide in rural Indonesian communities

Challenges for the next level of digital divide in rural Indonesian communities

Digital disparities and vulnerability: mobile phone use, information behaviour, and disaster preparedness in Southeast Asia

POFS: A novel pedestrian-oriented forewarning system for vulnerable pedestrian safety

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