Broadband Internet access, awareness, and use: Analysis of United States household data

Savage, Scott; Waldman, Donald M.

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2005.06.001

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“…The relationship between employment status and ICT adoption is inconclusive. While Kovacic and Vukmirovic (2008) found that there is a huge disparity in employment between the ICT adopters and non-adopters, Savage and Waldman (2005) found employment status as insignificant to ICT access. The relationship between gender and ICT adoption is also inconclusive.…”

Section: Analysis Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The presence of additional students at a given educational level does not matter much for ICT adoption in households or utilization of ICT by family members, whether these students have no access to ICT, have access to computers but not the Internet, or have access to both computers and Internet at school. Although household size (or number of children in household) has been found to positively affect residential Internet adoption in the US (Rappoport et al, 2003;Savage & Waldman, 2005), it may not play the same role in developing countries.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…This could happen because students ask for ICT, or because parents believe that ICT has educational benefit to their offspring, as Robertson, Soopramanien, and Fields (2004) found in the UK and Ortiz and Green (2011) found in the U.S. For example, more than 90% of parents in Ortiz and Green (2011) thought that access to a computer at home will have a positive effect on their children's success in life. The number of children in a household (which can be reflected by household size) was also found to be positively associated with Internet adoption (Rappoport, Kridel, Taylor, Alleman, & Duffy-Deno 2003;Savage & Waldman 2005).…”

Section: Effect Of Having Students In a Householdmentioning

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Does ICT in schools affect residential adoption and adult utilization outside schools?

Tengtrakul

Peha

2013

Telecommunications Policy

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Policymakers around the world are considering whether to invest in putting information and communication technology (ICT) in schools, and how. While educational impact is likely to be the primary objective, such investments can also affect residential adoption and adult utilization of ICT in the communities, thereby reducing the digital divide. Using a census survey of Thailand for a time when ICT was available in roughly half of the nation's schools, this study employs logistic regression and propensity score matching (PSM) to show that placing ICT in schools does have significant spill-over effects outside schools. This effect is larger for ICT in primary schools than secondary schools, and larger in schools with both Internet and computers than schools with just computers. The effects are observed in households of all incomes and educational levels. Considering these spill-over effects when allocating resources should lead to greater welfare gains for the amount of resources spent. The study also finds that there is a sizable portion of the adult population that chooses not to use ICT even after adopting this ICT in their households for their children, thereby eliminating any barriers to use related to cost and convenience. For this group, policy-makers should seek ways to decrease other impediments to ICT use, such as increasing ICT literacy through training. IntroductionPolicymakers around the world are considering whether to invest in putting information and communications technology (ICT) in schools. While the primary impact of this ICT is likely to be on the education that students get while at school, there may be spill-over effects that are worth considering, where any impact outside the school is considered a spill-over effect. This study measures the spill-over effects of bringing ICT to students in their schools on adoption of ICT in the households of these students, and on utilization of ICT by adults who live with these students. The specific ICT considered consists of computers and Internet access (either dial-up or broadband). Many believe it is important for a society to increase adoption and utilization of Internet and computers because this has benefits such as improving healthcare (Lua, Xiao, Sears, & Jacko, 2005), facilitating civic engagement (Norris, 2003), and improving education (Tinio, 2003). This paper presents an econometric study of how putting ICT in schools in Thailand (UNESCO, 2007) affected the adoption and use of ICT in the surrounding communities. This study also looks at how adult utilization of ICT is affected by living with students, and indirectly, by living with ICT that was likely brought into the households for those students.

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Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Section: Effect Of Having Students In a Householdmentioning

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2013

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“…Thus, unlike the results of other end-users data analyses conducted so far [23,24,35], the results obtained through analyses carried out within this framework are directly included in the technoeconomic modelling processes. In the proposed additional framework of the techno-economic model several data analyses listed hereafter are implemented.…”

Section: Analyses Within Additional Frameworkmentioning

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Broadband ecosystem elements in techno-economic modelling and analysing of broadband access solutions for rural areas

2016

Teh. vjesn.

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Original scientific paper Encouraged by broadband development initiatives and strategies that aim at the reduction of the existing digital divide between rural and urban European areas by the year 2020, the current situation in the case study of Croatian rural broadband market is analysed, and the possibilities for further broadband Internet access implementation in rural areas are highlighted in the paper within the context of broadband ecosystem elements analysis. Furthermore, in order to address the exisiting digital divide problem, an extended techno-economic modelling process for rural broadband Internet access implementation analyses is proposed. The proposed additional part of model serves as an upgrade for the standard techno-economic models and allows a detailed analysis of the specificities of different rural areas, based on the available data. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed model's application when choosing the best business strategies for different fixed and mobile, wired and wireless broadband access solutions in rural areas is presented. Keywords: broadband ecosystem; broadband implementation; rural broadband access; techno-economic modelling Elementi širokopojasnog ekosustava pri tehno-ekonomskom modeliranju i analiziranju širokopojasnih pristupnih rješenja za ruralna područjaIzvorni znanstveni članak S obzirom na postojeće razvojne inicijative i strategije čiji je cilj smanjenje postojećeg digitalnog jaza između europskih ruralnih i urbanih područja do 2020. godine, u radu je provedena analiza trenutnog stanja na tržištu širokopojasnog Interneta na primjeru hrvatskih ruralnih područja te su navedene mogućnosti daljnje implementacije širokopojasnih pristupnih rješenja u ruralna područja u kontekstu analize elemenata širokopojasnog ekosustava. Nadalje, u cilju rješavanja postojećeg problema digitalnog jaza, pri analizama načina implementacije širokopojasnih pristupnih rješenja u ruralnim područjima predložena je primjena proširenog tehno-ekonomskog modeliranja. Navedeno proširenje nadograđuje standardne modele, a omogućuje

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“…Savage et al (2005) identified three such attributes -speed, service reliability and "always-on" -whose influence on adoption varies depending on the social status of the potential adopter. Potential adopters with higher incomes value these more than those with lower incomes, and those with a degree value speed more, always-on less and reliability about the same as those without a degree.…”

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Understanding the drivers of broadband adoption: the case of rural and remote Scotland

Howick

Whalley

2008

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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Broadband has been described as a transforming technology and is now widely available in many developed countries. However, broadband availability is not the same as broadband adoption. If the socio-economic benefits of broadband are to be realised, then adoption needs to be both understood and encouraged. This is particularly important in rural and remote areas. This paper explores the factors that drive broadband adoption in one particular rural and remote area; rural and remote Scotland. A causal model and a quantitative simulation model are developed indicating how the various drivers of adoption interact with one another. Both models show that past policy initiatives have impacted on the rate of adoption. However, the greatest impact could be achieved if future policy initiatives target those people who show no interest in adopting broadband. The paper concludes by suggesting that this work has implications for rural and remote areas all around the world.

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Broadband Internet access, awareness, and use: Analysis of United States household data

Cited by 108 publications

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Does ICT in schools affect residential adoption and adult utilization outside schools?

Does ICT in schools affect residential adoption and adult utilization outside schools?

Broadband ecosystem elements in techno-economic modelling and analysing of broadband access solutions for rural areas

Understanding the drivers of broadband adoption: the case of rural and remote Scotland

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