The bridging of the so-called digital divide is an important issue in today's development efforts of international and non-governmental organizations and developing countries. This does not only concern access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the Internet, but also access to the know-how to use these technologies for economic development. Many of the recent intern...

This paper focuses on one of the factors that appears to be important in several conceptualizations of how to approach the digital divide: the differential possession of so-called Internet skills. Three largescale performance tests are conducted to reveal the contributions of gender, age, educational level of attainment, Internet experience, and amount of Internet use on both mediumand content-...

BACKGROUND Older adults typically have less access to the Internet than other age groups, and older Veterans may use the Internet even less due to economic and geographic reasons. OBJECTIVE To explore solutions to this problem, our study examined older Veterans' reported ability to access technology through their close social ties. METHODS Data were collected via mail survey from a sample o...

We detail the technique, procedure, and equipment required to properly obtain a micro-scale capillary (fingerstick) blood specimen for subsequent determination of its lead content. We divide the microsampling procedure into preparation of sampling equipment and subject, the fingerstick, micro blood collection devices, and transport and storage. The concept of a total-system approach to qualityc...

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In this paper, the authors examine if a difference exists in adopting or diffusing information and communication technology (ICT) between developing and newly developed countries. To analyze the problem, the authors use the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) suggested by Venkatesh et al. (2003), which consists of effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and social infl...

Since publication of the Atkins Commission report in 2003, the national scientific community has placed significant emphasis on developing cyberinfrastructure-enabled knowledge communities, which are designed to facilitate enhanced efficiency and collaboration in geographically distributed networks of researchers. This article suggests that the new cyberinfrastructure movement may not fully ben...

The 10-90 gap, double burden of disease, lack of infrastructure, resource scarcity: developing countries face a series of circumstances and determinants which inhibit progress in population health. Add to this constellation of challenges another set related to knowledge sharing, including the "know-do" gap and the digital divide, and the barriers to health in the Global South loom larger still....

Being on the wrong side of the digital divide limits the life chances of the socially excluded, who have had neither the wherewithal nor the opportunity to obtain highly paid, skilled positions in IT. Irish policy makers see education as the solution to this problem. However, providing institutional support for third level education in IT for the socially disadvantaged poses significant challen...