Preliminaries into problems to access information – the digital divide and rural communities

Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide

This article discusses the danger of a growing digital divide between rural and other areas. It presents broadband as increasingly necessary for the delivery of information, health, education, business, social security, public and leisure services. Access to broadband has become vital for rural communities to participate in a progressively digital economy and to overcome problems of physical an...

Bridging the Rural 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...

Beyond Access: Bridging the Digital Divide

This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings of an ongoing research project that is examining the relationship between e-Democracy and the ‘digital divide’. The literature surrounding the Digital Divide is reviewed, and the importance of equitable physical access to ICTs in the drive to bridge the issue of social exclusion examined. It is argued that any discussion of the phenomenon of th...

problems and strategies of translating persian lexical collocations into english: the case of noun-verb and noun-adjective collocations

در محیط های دانشگاهی ایران ، آموزش ترجمه واژگان هم آیند که به منزله امری لاینفک برای دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان می باشد، تا حدود زیادی نادیده گرفته شده است . این واقعیت باعث شده است تا دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان در ترجمه ی واژگان هم آیند اشتباهات بسیاری مرتکب شوند. این پژوهش توجه ویژه ای به ترجمه واژگان هم آیند داشته است. برای مشخص نمودن مشکلات و استراتژی های مورد استفاده ی دانش جویان در ترجم...