Quantifying global digital divide : do info-communication technologies equalise or not?

• Main Author: Koh, Eng Beng.
• Other Authors: Fu, Wayne Wei-Jen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Cultural studies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1190
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The new information and communication technologies (ICTs) withits “leap-frogging” characteristics have been hailed as the equaliser to the digital divide. Previous empirical studies on diffusion of ICT shave shown that income is an important determinant of digital divide, but none has purported to i...