Understanding the Digital Divide

By Richard Joseph. 2001

793 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This report is the second in a three-part series aimed at assessing the digital divide within the region (both pre-and mid-COVID-19). The third and final part will provide recommendations and strategies for how to bridge that divide.

Subfields: Media Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Bridging Digital Divides: a Literature Review and Research Agenda for Information Systems Research (2021, background): “Overall, the term digital divide includes digital inequalities between individuals, households, businesses or geographic areas (Pick and Sarkar 2016; OECD 2001).”
• Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (2009, background): “Traditional development literature suggests that there is a direct link between literacy, tertiary education enrollment, availability of personal computers and the digital divide (OECD, 2001).”
• The Gender Digital Divide in Developing Countries (2014, neutral): “Moreover, 90% of online content is in English, yet only one-third of users worldwide speak it [5], which may create barriers to access for non-English speakers [27], many of whom are women living in rural and remote areas [17].”
• Digital Gender Divide or Technologically Empowered Women in Developing Countries? A Typical Case of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (2011, background): “The term ―digital divide‖ has been coined to refer to this concept (e.g. NTIA, 1995, 1999; OECD, 2001).”