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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM < TECHNOLOGICALLY, Internet capacity will continue to …

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to offer vast
advantages to users. ICT could bring broad and in-depth information to those who have …

The global digital divide is starting to narrow, but digital equality remains an elusive goal.
Wealthy nations with the resources to develop information and communication technologies …

A phrase with great urgency a few years ago,“the digital divide” now is on the sidelines. As
the federal government renewed its commitment to marketplace solutions in …

Clearly, the metaphor of a digital divide that became very popular in the last years of the
1990s in the United States, with comparable designations in other languages and other …

A digital divide is an economic and social inequality regarding access to, use of, or impact of
information and communication technologies. However, economic or other resource gaps …

The astronomical growth of the Internet in the mid–1990s and the applications it makes
possible have captured the imagination of increasing numbers of people around the world …

Abstract The Digital Divide has been defined as a gap between those with access to new
information technologies and those without. The term is also used to characterize the …

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the digital divides in the US in terms of access,
broadband connectivity, intensity of Internet use, and nature of Internet use. These divides …

The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital
divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to …