Closing the Digital Divide in Low-Income Urban Communities: A Domestication Approach

Low-income Urban Communities: a Domestication Approach

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...

Closing the digital divide.

As recently as September 2000 a scientist from the World Health Organization wrote that global inequity in access to the internet was greater than any other inequity. Less than three years later more than 100 health institutions in the developing world have free electronic access to over 2000 journals—access that is equal, and sometimes better, than in institutions in New York, London, and Pari...

Bridging the Digital Divide: Report on Focus Groups with Low-income Urban and Rural Residents in Pennsylvania

In recent years, the growth in technology and new media has created a communications revolution that allows people instant and equal access to previously unavailable or difficult-to-find information. Despite this proliferation,, however, there remains a gap, a "Digital Divide", between Americans who have access to technology and those who do not. According to the most recent report from the Dep...

Low-income Minority Seniors’ Enrollment in a Cybercafé: Psychological Barriers to Crossing the Digital Divide

Understanding the Rural – Urban Digital Divide

This paper explains the current ‘digital divide’ in internet use between rural and urban areas using a Logit adoption model with data collected from the August 2000 Current Population Survey. A non-linear decomposition shows that rural – urban household attribute differences account for 66 percent of the digital divide, while place based differences account for the remaining 34 percent of the d...