Potential differences in Internet access and usage among high school students underscores the fact that while Internet access and computer ownership are rising rapidly for many groups, at present a digital divide remains. The authors designed a study to examine the Internet usage and access patterns of college-bound high school students in southeast Georgia. An analysis of the data collected fr...

As computer technology becomes increasingly prevalent throughout society, concerns have been raised about an emerging "digital divide" between those children who are benefitting and those who are being left behind. This article presents results from new analyses of national survey data describing children's differential access to computers in school and at home, and the varying conditions that ...

The digital divide is a major challenge that prevents citizens from using e-government services based on three views: infrastructure accessibility, knowledge and skill level, and perception level. This study tried to explore the literature in regards to the three levels and built an instrument to measure citizens’ perceptions regarding six types of digital divide: geographic, age, gender, incom...

This chapter presents data from the 2002 NATSISS as it relates to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use, namely computers and the internet. While a number of determinants of ICT use have been well established, like education and income, there are other factors that have a similar impact on ICT use in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Presented here for the first ...

Three arguments are raised in this article with regard to the indices used to measure the digital divide. First, I criticize policymakers who rely on simplistic measures of the digital divide, at the expense of a thoughtful analysis of (1) the purpose of the tool, (2) the level of observation, and (3) the method of approaching the data. Second, I argue that networks and associated technologies ...

The bridging of the so-called digital divide is an important issue in today's development efforts of international and non-governmental organizations and developing countries. This does not only concern access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the Internet, but also access to the know-how to use these technologies for economic development. Many of the recent intern...

This paper focuses on one of the factors that appears to be important in several conceptualizations of how to approach the digital divide: the differential possession of so-called Internet skills. Three largescale performance tests are conducted to reveal the contributions of gender, age, educational level of attainment, Internet experience, and amount of Internet use on both mediumand content-...

BACKGROUND Older adults typically have less access to the Internet than other age groups, and older Veterans may use the Internet even less due to economic and geographic reasons. OBJECTIVE To explore solutions to this problem, our study examined older Veterans' reported ability to access technology through their close social ties. METHODS Data were collected via mail survey from a sample o...

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In this paper, the authors examine if a difference exists in adopting or diffusing information and communication technology (ICT) between developing and newly developed countries. To analyze the problem, the authors use the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) suggested by Venkatesh et al. (2003), which consists of effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and social infl...