Poverty and the Digital Divide in Developing Nations
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Developing Nations, the Digital Divide and Research Databases
0098-7913/$–see fro doi:10.1016/j.serrev. Brooks is the Senio EBSCO Informat e-mail: sbrooks@e Donovan is the Vi Information Serv [email protected] Rumble is the Vic Africa for EBSCO USA; e-mail: crum The digital divide affects many nations of the developing world. The term encompasses inadequate funding, a lack of necessary computer and Internet skills, and a lack of English-language proficienc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Asian Social Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2330-2151,2330-2143
DOI: 10.5430/sass.v1n2p33