Computers in Homes (CIH): Enabling Community Access to Internet and ICT?

Assadi, Tony; Chard, Sue

doi:10.1109/latice.2014.11

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“…The impact of this gap is the first step for being aware of the need for new public policies to solve this problem. For achieving this objective, the problem has to be visualized and affected groups should be taken into account (Assadi & Chard, 2014;Barreiro-Gen, Novo-Corti, & Varela-Candamio, 2013;Cushman & Klecun, 2006;Turk & Trkman, 2012).…”

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Are Public Policies Aimed In The Right Direction?

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International Journal of Knowledge Society Research

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Digital divide is one of the major problems of Information Society and is linked with social exclusion. This work is focus on Spain situation and its relative position in the European Union, and study the major key points of it through the household reasons for have no Internet Access, taking into account socio-economics variables, as a key point that can be help to understand the relative situation of Spain in the European Union related with ICT and to elaborate suitable public policies to reduce digital divide. Results have shown that the most important reason that Spanish households do not have access to Internet is that people feel they do not need it, because they not consider Internet useful or interesting. It is proposed the design of public policies that take into account the important lack of motivation and good attitude towards Internet in the most of Spanish households without Internet.

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