ICT production and diffusion in Asia Digital dividends or digital divide?

ICT production and diffusion in Asia Digital dividends or digital divide?

ICT in the Workplace: Access for All or Digital Divide?

The paper presents the findings of research into the extent and impact of restricted access to ICT based communications for specific groups of staff in UK further and higher education organisations. Educational institutions disseminate key corporate information internally via email, intranets and Virtual Learning Environments. However, the extent to which access to electronic communications is ...

ICT Development Index and the Digital Divide

The disparity in access to information and communications technologies (ICTs), often referred to as “digital divide”, has received significant attention among policy makers and academics around the world. In particular, the need for continuous monitoring of the ICT adoption rates by communities in different economies has been one of the top priorities in various forums. In order to address this...

Digital Dividends for the Poor ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia

Comments and suggestions made by the above panel were incorporated into the current draft of the study. The author also wishes to acknowledge with gratitude the contribution of representatives of each of the case studies included in this report, as well as the many other initiatives that responded to a preliminary questionnaire. Executive Summary Poverty in Asia is pervasive, massive, resilient...

ICT, Education and Digital Divide in Developing Countries

Information Communication Technologies are the core of a new life that has made a new entity, the Information Society with a specific education system. From this viewpoint the Information Society and the way of learning is deemed to be as different from ancient, industrial and agricultural epochs. Since the 1950's, the advent of computers brought high hopes of the power of technology to revolut...