The digital divide has attracted enormous attention from both the popular press and information systems researchers. A survey study was conducted to determine the impact of the digital divide on students’ selfdirected learning in an information technology-based learning environment through their computer selfefficacy, and to assess the role of the school IT environment in bridging this digital ...

In this paper we discuss the results of a survey of senior citizens’ interaction with information technology. We expected that the “digital divide” between young and old might be diminishing, and we found evidence of that. We also report on information technologies that seem to be attracting seniors and those that have not yet attracted this age group. We also report findings with regard to sen...

Capabilities for accessing, delivering, and exchanging information in digital forms vary greatly across the rich and the poor nations. Mobile networks can reach quickly into regions where fixed networks are slow to emerge and thus offer the potential to bridge the global digital divide. The ultimate success of these " mobile e-Development " or MED models, however, will depend on a variety of co...

The complex problem of declining female participation in the IT industry has been conceptualised in a number of vivid images – the shrinking pipeline, the pink collar work force and the digital divide. This paper argues that women working in IT are discursively divided from the ‘masculine’ domain of IT and from other women by distinctive discursive practices. This paper discusses the use of dis...

Whilst many authors are now confident to dismiss the notion of the digital divide, this paper argues that inequalities in ICT use in contemporary higher education are of growing rather than diminishing importance. In particular, it argues that there is an urgent need for the higher education community to develop more sophisticated understandings of the nature of the digital divisions that exist...

The global digital divide as a concept is intuitively understood by most academicians, politicians and public policy makers. However, to date little empirical work exists to explain differences in per country access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The research that does exists places heavy influence on the impact of country wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GD...

There are more than 700 million current Internet users, but the world population is approximately 6 billion (Trend 2001), indicating that computer technology is used by less than one-eighth of the population. Computers are becoming common tools in schools, often viewed as a democratic panacea despite the costs involved and despite the fact that the majority does not have access to computers and...

A number of definitions can be found for the term. The Web site http://whatis.techtarget.com explains that the term “describes the fact that the world can be divided into people who do and people who don't have access to and the capability to use modern information technology, such as the telephone, television, or the Internet...The digital divide also exists between the educated and the uneduc...

The advancement of information and communications technology (ICT) has revolutionized the way governments deliver public services, thereby fostering the development of egovernment in general and attracting increasing interests in ubiquitous government. While egovernment encourages online services which can substitute or complement conventional offline services, the presence of digital divide ca...