Measuring the Digital Divide: A Framework for the Analysis of Cross-Country Differences

Corrocher, Nicoletta; Ordanini, Andrea

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“…On the other hand, a study on the effectiveness of Telecentre from the demand side (users) using the two levels of effectiveness management and program effectiveness are reported to be limited [22]. Corrocher and Ordanini (2002) presented the role played by political, institutional and cultural cross-country differences to explain the gap; on the other hand, they also emphasized the multidimensional and complex nature of digital divide [23]. In a study conducted by Doong and Ho (2012), secondary data of ICT relevant variables of 136 countries spanned five continents from 2000 to 2008 were collected and analyzed [24].…”

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Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Almajali¹,

Maqableh²,

Masa'deh³

2015

IJCNS

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This study investigates the status of digital divide amongst Jordanian Telecentres. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of the perceived usefulness, the perceived ease-of-use and the facilitating conditions on the behavioral intention of employees. In addition, the study investigates the effect of the three mentioned factors on the user acceptance while the behavioral intention on the user acceptance is used as a mediating factor. The proposed research model was validated by distributing 150 survey questionnaires to the Telecentres in Jordan. Structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was used to analyze the results. One of the main limitations of this study is that the results cannot be universal since the study was limited to Jordan. Similar study needs to be conducted in different courtiers to either support or negate our results.

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Section: Motivation Of Studymentioning

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Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Almajali¹,

Maqableh²,

Masa'deh³

2015

IJCNS

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“…Although the digital divide is a complex construct, which can be understood in many different ways, mainstream accounts have tended to define it in terms of variations in the spatial or social distribution of internet infrastructure, access and/or usage (Corrocher andOrdanini 2002, Selwyn 2004;Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Lal 2005). Such divides have been identified at a number of different spatial scales (Warf 2001).…”

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Is the Internet Really New After All? The Determinants of Telecommunications Diffusion in Historical Perspective

Perkins

Neumayer

2011

The Professional Geographer

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Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the internet is shaped by a number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the internet any more a product of material geography than previous communication technologies? Our contribution in the present article seeks to address this question by deploying quantitative techniques to examine whether the country-level adoption of past communication networks -mail, telegrams and telephone -was shaped by similar socioeconomic factors. Our results reveal striking similarities in the domestic attributes -income, education and trade openness -influencing rates of uptake across all four technologies during their major periods of diffusion.

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“…In [7] the authors employ the ratio of deviation to mean as the indicator of divide magnitude. In [8] authors also took the same criterion to assess the level of national digital divide, while in [9] authors employ this approach to evaluate the magnitude of global digital divide.…”

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A Compound Generic Quantitative Framework for Measuring Digital Divide

Noureldien¹

2014

ijacsa

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Abstract-The term digital divide had been used in the literature to conceptualize the gap in using and utilizing information and communication technologies. Digital divide can be identified on different levels such as individuals, groups, societies, organizations and countries. On the other hand, the concept of e-Inclusion is coined to define activities needed to bridge digital divide.One of the most challenging research areas in digital divide that had been a subject for exhaustive studies is measuring digital divide. Researchers have proposed many metrics and indices to measure digital divide. However, most of the proposed measures are bivariate comparisons that reduce measurement to comparisons of Internet penetration rates or alike. This paper proposes a compound generic framework for quantitative measuring of digital divide on the individuals or group level. The proposed framework takes into account the context of the digital divide in each society.

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Measuring the Digital Divide: A Framework for the Analysis of Cross-Country Differences

Cited by 173 publications

References 8 publications

Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Assessing the Digital Divide Status of the Jordanian Telecentre

Is the Internet Really New After All? The Determinants of Telecommunications Diffusion in Historical Perspective

A Compound Generic Quantitative Framework for Measuring Digital Divide

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