The potential, value, and relevance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is no longer debatable. Past research, however, highlights differences in their availability in developed and developing countries. This phenomenon is known as the digital divide (Norris, 2001; Warschauer, 2004, Pick and Sarkar, 2015). Of the approximately 200 nations for which digital divide data are repor...

This paper presents a study that was designed to examine efforts undertaken by two cities—Atlanta and LaGrange, Georgia—to redress the digital divide. Atlanta’s initiative has taken the form of community technology centers where citizens can come to get exposure to information technology and to learn something about computers and their applications. LaGrange has taken a very different approach,...

E-Rate is a U.S. federal funding program for providing discounts for telecommunications, Internet access and internal networking costs for schools and libraries to ensure access equity across poor and rich, rural, urban and suburban areas, and highly served and underserved areas. This paper examines the impact of the E-Rate program on social equity and educational efficacy in American public sc...

A grand challenge for AI in developing economies is improving the quality of life of the 4 billion people at the bottom of the pyramid who subsist on less than $2,000 per year income. One critical component of improving the quality of life is access to information and knowledge that is helpful for education, healthcare, food, and agriculture in rural communities. This talk will review why the w...

The digital divide in schools developing countries is becoming increasingly evident as information communication and technology (ICT) has entered the educational system. However, access to ICT infrastructure alone does not guarantee that a person would be motivated use it. unequal divide. In Nepal, COVID-19 pandemic caused limited among low-income families rural populations. This research aimed...

Even though, there has been an increasing usage and access to Information Communication Technology (ICT) worldwide during the last few decades, the digital divide between developed and developing regions still remains (ITU, 2009). In developed countries a well established ICT infrastructure exists in industrial, business, governmental and home environments. The infrastructure is available in bi...

In recent years, a plethora of public and private programs in the United States have been created to close the “Digital Divide.” Interestingly, however, we know very little about the underlying causes of racial differences in rates of computer and Internet access. In this paper, I use data from the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the August 2000 Current Population Survey (CPS) to explor...

Sustainable development continues to be a key concept for social scientists and planners concerned with eco-friendly development. We argue that sustainable development should be conceptualized as the progressive development of social processes that promote reflexive, radical democracy and the equitable sharing of ecological, economic and social costs and benefits, rather than as a technocratic ...

One approach to re-balancing the Digital Divide tends to favor the production of informative content in flat formats, which are easy to distribute and consume. At the same time this approach forbids to deliver the core knowledge pertinent within the content; i.e. it increases the Knowledge Divide. In some international organizations, informative content distribution to groups in Latin America h...