Statistical Analyses of Digital Divide Factors

Várallyai, László; Herdon, Miklós; Botos, Szilvia

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)00037-4

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“…These results are in congruence with earlier studies (Li and Ranieri 2013;Várallyai et al 2015;Whitacre 2008). Higher percentages of the Youth population and Education mean a larger share of the digital natives (the millennials, born into the digital age).…”

Section: Digital Performance and Spatial-economic Variablessupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Following the growing relevance of the digital divide as an element of urban inequality, attempts have been made to account for its factors, often treating socio-economic variables (Eynon and Helsper 2014;Várallyai et al 2015). Socio-economic strata have been found to be related to the digital divide (Eynon and Helsper 2014): women in Britain have fewer activities online and higher level of education positively correlates with Internet skills and access.…”

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Spatial analysis of urban digital divide in Kigali, Rwanda

2018

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Access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and its potentials for cities are often uneven across geographies and demographics, a condition that has been referred to as the digital divide. Given the invisibility of digital access, certain geo-demographic groups could face the risk of digital exclusion. However, where not aspatial, most studies explore the digital divide at macro-spatial levels (national and regional levels), which makes them less relevant for knowledge generation and policies at intra-urban scales, the actual hubs of innovations. This paper explores the state of ICT access in Kigali City, at an intra-urban level. It analyses official census data on ICT Access Indicators across dimensions and space, 35 administrative areas called sectors. The paper establishes the relative digital access performance of the sectors based on the measurement of their ICT Location Quotients. In Kigali City spatial distribution of ICT access is significantly clustered, with areas of concentration at the core and sparsity on the northeastern periphery of the city. This espouses spatialitydigitality relations. Using data reduction, we establish that existing urban inequality in infrastructure, urban agglomerative strength, planning status and household socio-economic status are replicated as correlates of the digital divide in Kigali City. We recommend that the baseline spatial-statistical analysis be applied for spatially-targeted ICT policy interventions and that the dimension of ICT be incorporated in policy making targeting urban inequality.

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Section: Digital Performance and Spatial-economic Variablessupporting

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Spatial analysis of urban digital divide in Kigali, Rwanda

2018

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“…The scientific researches emphasize the multifractality of the phenomenon under study. (Várallyai, Herdon, & Botos, 2015). The majority of works examines the correlation between digital inequality with the current types of inequality: income inequality and educational inequality.…”

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Dynamics of Digital Inequality in Russia

Chernova¹,

Zobov²,

Starostin³

2019

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This article contains research about the phenomenon of digital inequality among different social groups in Russia. The short literature review, conducted in it, concerns the factors, which have an impact on the rise and spread of digital inequality. The types of digital inequality have been analyzed, and each of them has the relative digital divide indicators calculated. It has been revealed, that the digital divide in terms of the Internet and information and communications technology access between the rural and urban population has been decreased, however the divide in terms of digital skills has been increased. There is almost no digital divide in ICT among the middle-aged groups, and it is constantly decreasing. Although the digital divide among the older-aged groups is also growing down, it is still high, and the divide in digital skills remains unchanged. It is noted, that the country's territory in length objectively increases the IT infrastructure costs, hampers providing for the high-quality internet-connection for the rural people and is the reason for digital divide in terms of Internet-access.

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“…Brecha digital es probablemente es el concepto pionero en la reflexión sobre el impacto social de las tecnologías, esto dado por las evidentes diferencias de oportunidades en el desarrollo de las comunidades, brecha digital puede definirse como "la distancia tecnológica entre individuos, familias, empresas, grupos de interés, países y áreas geográficas en sus oportunidades en el acceso a la información y a las tecnologías de la comunicación y en el uso de Internet para un amplio rango de actividades" (Pedraza et al, 2012) la introducción de las TIC en diferentes ámbitos vinculantes con las personas, trae consigo desajustes sociales, que requieren de estrategias de penetración pero a la vez empoderamiento para reducir las brechas creadas por la tecnología (Várallyai et. al., 2015).…”

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“…En la investigación realizada por (Vallejo y Patiño, 2014), se puede encontrar con la propuesta de algunos instrumentos para evaluar el nivel de apropiación tecnológica en instituciones educativas, adicional a ello, (Corona et. al., 2017), plantean una metodología para lograr la apropiación tecnológica en las instituciones educativas, además propone un modelo para determinar el impacto de las tecnologías en procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje; en el mismo sentido se ha encontrado investigaciones como las de (Várallyai et. al., 2015), que plantea una propuesta metodológica para medir la brecha digital en la población de un país, integrando diferentes variables como: los niveles educativos y económicos de la población, los géneros, las edades, las características de la vivienda y aspectos culturales entre otros.…”

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Situación Digital para Instituciones de Educación Superior: Modelo y Herramienta

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ResumenSe propone un modelo para medir la situación digital en instituciones de educación superior. El modelo tiene un componente conceptual que define su estructura, un componente procedimental que determina su aplicación y una herramienta de software que articula los anteriores componentes para facilitar la operacionalización del mismo. Adicionalmente, se describe un estudio de caso desarrollado en una institución universitaria colombiana para evaluar el modelo considerando su efectividad, sus debilidades y su alcance. Entre los principales resultados obtenidos, está la validez del modelo para identificar el índice de situación digital para todos los integrantes de una comunidad universitaria, encontrando que las competencias axiológicas y productivas son las de menor valoración. Se concluye que toda institución debe contar con planes de gestión tecnológica que determine la viabilidad de la adquisición de tecnologías. Además, debe contar con estrategias de apropiación para reducir brechas y lograr mejor aprovechamiento de la inversión. Palabras clave: inclusión digital; brecha digital; índice de inclusión digital; alfabetización tecnológica; situación digitalAbstract This paper presents the proposal of a model to measure the digital situation in higher education institutions. The model is composed of a conceptual component that defines its structure, a procedural component that determines its application in an institution and a software tool that articulates the previous components in order to facilitate its functioning. In addition, this article describes a case study developed in a Colombian university institution for evaluating the model considering its effectiveness, its weaknesses and its scope. Among the main results obtained, there is the validity of the model to identify the digital situation index for all the members of a university community, finding that the axiological and productive competences are the least valued. It is concluded that the institution must have technological management plans that determine the viability of the acquisition of technologies. Also, it must have appropriation strategies to reduce gaps and achieve better use of the investment.

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Statistical Analyses of Digital Divide Factors

Cited by 29 publications

References 17 publications

Spatial analysis of urban digital divide in Kigali, Rwanda

Spatial analysis of urban digital divide in Kigali, Rwanda

Dynamics of Digital Inequality in Russia

Situación Digital para Instituciones de Educación Superior: Modelo y Herramienta

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