The TRIPs agreement does not appear likely to alleviate any wealth differences arising from the existing North-South technology divide. Open-economy endogenous growth models suggest a dynamic shift towards further concentration of industrial R&D in the Northern countries. While production of goods developed as an outcome of this R&D may shift to Southern countries through the actions of multina...

In the agricultural domain, the variety of data used by organizations is increasing rapidly. Also, there is an increasing demand for accessing these data. Now, the problem of the digital divide causes serious problems in manipulating the distributed information. Based on this condition, this paper presents the intelligent retrieval architecture of distributional agriculture science and technolo...

Developing a distributed application is hard due to the complexity inherent to distributed communication. Moreover, distributed object communication technology is always changing, todays edge technology will become tomorrows legacy technology. This paper proposes an incremental approach to allow a divide and conquer strategy that copes with these problems. It presents a design pattern for distr...

America faces a real challenge to its position as a global leader in information technology, which impacts the preparedness of the national workforce. The 21 century worker is facing a dynamic environment, where knowledge, speed, and technical proficiency will determine the "haves" and the "have nots." This lack of technology proficiency has produced a "digital divide" for many underrepresented...

Civilization has significantly been impacted by the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT). But because ICT developed unevenly, there is now a digital divide that influences economy. The purpose this study was to examine how affects local income Gini ratio. gap index, original 34 Indonesian provinces, ratio are techniques employed quantitatively with time series data for ...

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,...

The ‘digital divide’, which is defined as the gap that exists between those with and those without access to the Internet, (i.e. the digital ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’) has been widely debated. The main protagonists are split broadly into two groups, the technology ‘optimists’ and the technology ‘pessimists’. Conventional wisdom is represented by the optimists’ view that the divide is caused by so...

This paper presents a comparative study on digital divide between a region and its main metropolitan area. The exercise shows how barriers to technology access and usage may vary in terms of both nature and intensity. The paper also proposes a taxonomy of the different types of digital divides that may be present inside a region.

This position paper argues that the Web 2.0 phenomenon is an important object of study for information systems research, and that a social informatics approach to understanding Web 2.0 is particularly relevant and useful. We discuss Wikipedia as an example of empirical research on Web 2.0 that can help bridge the divide between academic and popular discourse on new technology movements.