This paper examines the Taiwanese government’s ways of constructing a measurement model and an empirical study of digital divide among government agencies. On the basis of Gowin's Vee structure, this paper first refers to the Grounded Theory in the establishment of the draft list for the measurement of the digital divide in local governments. Furthermore, it constructs five dimensions and 42 me...

The digital divide is widely recognized as a contemporary problem between society and techno logy. Strategies for bridging the digital divide are often informed and guided by quantitative assessments of the deployment of information communication technologies. There are few rigorous qualitative attempts to assess the digital divide from either an ethnographic or a futures-oriented perspective. ...

A phrase with great urgency a few years ago, “the digital divide” now is on the sidelines. As the federal government renewed its commitment to marketplace solutions in telecommunications and information technology issues under the Bush administration, the idea of a digital divide faced criticism from FCC Chairman Powell for being an ill-advised version of the “Mercedes divide” in the United Sta...

T he contrast between the egalitarian ideals of many netizens, who see cyberspace as a radically democratizing environment , and the real limitations of access for most of the world continues to haunt the Net. In many ways, the domination of information technology has reinvigorated hierarchies of power, concentrating resources in the First World and contributing to the widening global economic ...

Many hope that new media, -particularly the speed, global reach, and interactivity of the Internet, -will transform civic engagement and political mobilization in democracies. This process is believed to be particularly important in giving voice to the voiceless, strengthening NGOs in civic society, linking citizens with government services, and helping parties generate support among new groups...

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...

In this paper we discuss the results of a survey of senior citizens’ interaction with information technology. We expected that the “digital divide” between young and old might be diminishing, and we found evidence of that. We also report on information technologies that seem to be attracting seniors and those that have not yet attracted this age group. We also report findings with regard to sen...

Capabilities for accessing, delivering, and exchanging information in digital forms vary greatly across the rich and the poor nations. Mobile networks can reach quickly into regions where fixed networks are slow to emerge and thus offer the potential to bridge the global digital divide. The ultimate success of these " mobile e-Development " or MED models, however, will depend on a variety of co...

The complex problem of declining female participation in the IT industry has been conceptualised in a number of vivid images – the shrinking pipeline, the pink collar work force and the digital divide. This paper argues that women working in IT are discursively divided from the ‘masculine’ domain of IT and from other women by distinctive discursive practices. This paper discusses the use of dis...