Digital divide across the European Union

Cruz-Jesus, Frederico; Oliveira, Tiago; Bação, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.im.2012.09.003

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“…The adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has followed different trajectories and occurred at a different pace globally (Hilbert et al, 2010;Cruz-Jesus et al, 2012). The 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey shows that 50 per cent of 15 year-olds in Finland had used a computer more than five years in the early 2000s.…”

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The affordances of reading/writing on paper and digitally in Finland

Taipale

2014

Telematics and Informatics

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The affordances of reading/writing on paper and digitally in Finland

Taipale

2014

Telematics and Informatics

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“…Cruz-Jesus, Oliveira and Bacao (2012) found that the integration process and economic richness are the main variables that explain digital divide for 27 EU member countries. However, it was found out that the level of education is not a variable that explains digital divide, contrary to the expectations.…”

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Is Turkey Ready for Global Network in the Perspective of European Union?

Berberoğlu¹,

Berberoğlu²

2016

JSSA

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While the European Union, was initially founded as an association for economic purposes, now it tends to be a common information society and wants to transform the economic structure of the Union in the perspective of knowledge economy. World Economic Forum derived the networked readiness index which consists four sub-indices as environment, preparation, usage and impact sub-indices, with the aim of using it in evaluating the levels of development of the countries in transforming themselves into information societies. In this study, we primarily evaluated the positions of Turkey and the countries of European Union within the scope of the networked readiness index, then we evaluated their positions according to the impact sub-index. Impact sub-index can be separated into two groups both including four different sub-indices as economic and social ones. In our study we preferred to use clustering analysis which is one of the multivariate statistical techniques and employed a non-hierarchical clustering analysis named k-means technique. According to the networked readiness index, Finland was in the best position and followed by Sweden, UK, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands. Turkey took part in the bottom cluster, along with other European Union countries. On the other hand according to the impact sub-index, while Turkey was found to be in the moderate position among the European Union Countries, Sweden, UK, Malta, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Estonia and Finland were in the best position.

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“…Caution needs to be observed, however, since a country may show differing rates of broadband penetration with internet adoption. While it is assumed the two indicators are synonymous, the levels may be different within the same country, thus leading to potentially misleading results (Cruz-Jesus et al, 2012).…”

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“…While mobile technology indicators applied across countries may constitute what is labeled general purpose technologies (GPTs) which may apply to most sectors (e.g., financial services, manufacturing, health), they need to be interpreted in the context of a specific sector, such as health as they do not measure nor explain variations in country profiles (Cruz-Jesus et al, 2012). The list of ten indicators outlined in Table 1 are GPTs in relation to broadband, internet, and mobile technology.…”

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“…Currently, the European Commission is working on many fronts to develop the digital economy (European Commission, 2012a). Yet serious inequalities remain where access and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) among EU citizens represents a digital divide which calls for urgent policy action (Cruz-Jesus, Oliveira, & Bacao, 2012). This is an important issue as the concept of social innovation, as ICT can play a part in changing the culture within healthcare, to encourage citizens to become more actively engaged in their health.…”

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Social Innovation in Public Health: Can Mobile Technology Make a Difference?

Currie

Seddon

2014

Information Systems Management

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International audienceAn important social innovation is the intersection between healthcare and mobile technology. Building on prior research, statistical multivariate methods are used to provide cross-country analysis. Our findings suggest that if the European Union's aim of increasing citizens activity in healthcare is to be achieved, then mobile technology needs to become part of a wider pan-European social innovation. Only through developing a health infrastructure supported by these applications will the culture of public health change

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Digital divide across the European Union

Cited by 182 publications

References 53 publications

The affordances of reading/writing on paper and digitally in Finland

The affordances of reading/writing on paper and digitally in Finland

Is Turkey Ready for Global Network in the Perspective of European Union?

Social Innovation in Public Health: Can Mobile Technology Make a Difference?

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