The Digital Divide: An Investigation of Native American Undergraduate Population in South Dakota
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The Native American population in South Dakota accounts for more than 8 percent of the state-wide population as per the 2000 U. S. Census. The primary purpose of this study was to survey a segment of this population base, and identify the percentage of South Dakota’s Native Americans that do not own computers, or have access to the Internet and subsequently are classified as being affected by the digital divide.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017