The influence of information and communication technology on the collective activities and interests of a broad range of people was discussed and analyzed. The important consequence of ICT called digital divide was mathematically modeled and the results analyzed. The closed loop feedback model proved the need for a society to be educationally, culturally, economically and politically ready to i...

The term “digital divide” has been used frequently over the past five years to express the idea that certain people groups have less access to computing resources than others. Some aspects of the problem have been well explored in many documents. These include the financial problems of computer access, the lack of telecommunications resources in remote areas and a lack of basic literacy which w...

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The purpose of the proposed paper is to give an overview of the challenges researchers are most likely to face when studying digital divide and to present a new, more accurate and comprehensive mode of presentation of digital divide indexes and indicators. When trying to systematize different methodological challenges of digital divide measurements, we have been following the subsequent researc...

abstract women as half of the population of each society have important role in societies development. accordingly, many sociologists consider study of women’s empowerment and its influencing factors. present study is to examine the relationship between digital divide and women empowerment. in addition, women empowerment and its dimensions (access and control of resources, participation, gender...