AudienceScapes research has focussed on understanding how certain socioeconomic gaps prevent women from having the same level of access to communication and information as men. Mobile Futures: Global Gender Divide [1] [2]Unprecedented growth in mobile phone access in emerging economies is the success story of this decade-‐-‐ but what about disadvantaged citizens in these countries who continue ...

Aim/Purpose Significant urban digital divide exists in Nairobi County where low income households lack digital literacy skills and do not have access to the internet. The study was undertaken as an intervention, designed to close the digital divide among low income households in Nairobi by introducing internet access using the domestication framework. Background Information and Communication Te...

The digital divide refers to the separation between those who have access to digital information and communications technology (ICT) and those who do not. Many believe that universal access to ICT would bring about a global community of interaction, commerce, and learning resulting in higher standards of living and improved social welfare. However, the digital divide threatens this outcome lead...

Access to technology and the benefits derived from its use are not available on equal terms to men and women. In this paper, we review research that sheds light on the relationship between the Digital Divide and Gender in the context of Arab countries and suggest that the extent of gender digital divide is influenced by cultural attitudes and consider how this divide may affect information secu...

For almost a decade, governments and organizations have spent resources in an attempt to bridge the digital divide. Many of these efforts have focused on giving access to computers and the Internet. Some even included attempts at computer skills training. (Kirschenbau & Kunamneni 2001). However, skills become obsolete with new technologies. So while specific skills may be helpful, an understand...

The digital divide means more than having access to ICTs. It also means that a person has the necessary ICT literacy skills needed to learn and succeed in an ICTmediated learning environment. ICT literacy includes the ability to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information. These skills are regulated by the appropriate cognitive styles, which allows an individual to acquire, proc...

Even as geographic disparities in high speed Internet access narrow, an urban–rural broadband gap persists, pointing to the importance of individual differences in motivations to adopt broadband as the key to closing the gap. Diffusion of innovation is reconceptualized through contemporary perspectives of the digital divide and social cognitive theory and tested on a survey sample drawn from fo...

Scholars from different disciplines have recently studied a phenomenon called “the digital divide”. Since many of the new government information technology initiatives are based on Internet technologies and require the use of the Internet by citizens, understanding the digital divide (and consequently, the potential demand) is very important for e-government scholars. For some researchers, the ...