Challenging the digital divide: a literature review of community informatics initiatives

Authors:
LOADER Brian D., KEEBE Leigh
Publisher:
Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
Publication year:
2004
Pagination:
65p.
Place of publication:
York

Unsurprisingly there is a perceived correlation between the ‘information poor’ and those communities which are currently socially and economically isolated. The fear is that current trends in the acquisition, access and diffusion of ICTs may act to reinforce these existing inequalities. Consequently, as the new media and their adoption become increasingly important for educational achievement, employment opportunities, access to public and commercial services and other life choices, people living in deprived localities are likely to be significantly disadvantaged. The digital divide therefore refers to much more than the notion of access to technology. It is crucially bound up with debates about social exclusion, economic regeneration of deprived areas and the breakdown of social capital and community relations.

Subject terms:
information services, information technology, social exclusion, socioeconomic groups, access to information, access to services;
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ISBN print:
1 85935 197 2

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