Informação de diagnóstico, democracia e inclusão digital | Diagnosis analysis, democracy and digital inclusion

E - Health and Digital Inclusion

E-health resources can deliver demonstrable benefits for quality of care, for example through provision of public health information and access to online communities and self-help groups for those experiencing ill-health. Digitally excluded groups of health consumers such as older people and those with disabilities have much to gain from the social connectedness and social support offered throu...

Exclusão Digital das Pequenas e Médias Empresas Brasileiras - um olhar pela teoria de adoção das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação

The aim of this research is to study the digital exclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It was adopted as theoretical perspective the TOE model of technology adoption by organizations proposed by Tornatzky & Fleischer (1990). The intent was to determine which factors, among those considered technological, organizational and external environment influence the use of information and co...

Digital Inclusion

Debunking the 'digital native': beyond digital apartheid, towards digital democracy

This paper interrogates the currently pervasive discourse of the 'net generation' finding the concept of the 'digital native' especially problematic, both empirically and conceptually. We draw on a research project of South African higher education students' access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to show that age is not a determining factor in students' digital l...

Digital Limits of Government: The Failure of E-Democracy

While the Internet is often touted as a revolutionary technology, it might be noted that democratic institutions have witnessed no digital revolution through the Internet. This observation leads this chapter to argue that the field of e-democracy has generally failed to live up to its own reformist rhetoric. It argues that instead of reforming government processes through technology, e-democrac...