Drawing on a three-year project involving 20 secondary schools throughout Europe, this paper analyzes the socioeconomic factors that determine the success or failure of introducing information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure to schools. While many papers have been written on this topic, this paper definitely benefits from a large project, and is a must read for current or fut...

The information society must be considered, above all, a society composed by people. For that reason, a social priority for the information society development should be centered in the acquisition of knowledge. To be included in the digital literacy means to have the technological capabilities that allow a person surviving in the information society. We try to offer real examples for the devel...

As a simple explanation, Internet literacy is a capability constitutive to utilizing the advantages of the Internet. But, due to the constant changes of digital technologies, what kinds of necessary capabilities are required to gain the advantages? In fact, more than focusing on the essential capabilities to benefit users from the Internet advantages, existing perceptions of Internet literacy h...

BACKGROUND Individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders use the Internet for general and health-related purposes. Their ability to find, understand, and apply the health information they acquire online in order to make appropriate health decisions - known as eHealth literacy - has never been investigated. The European agenda strives to limit health inequalities and enhance mental health li...

In the mid 1990s, researchers and public policy officials observed a chasm between individuals who had access to computers and the Internet, and those who did not. This gap was termed the “digital divide”. Over the last decade, the digital divide has become an increasingly elastic concept that includes disparities in access to computing infrastructure (NTIA 1995) as well as differences in digit...