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TELE
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Africa and the digital divide
The digital divide is a phenomenon linked not only to the topic of access to the Internet, but also to the one of usage and usage benefit. In this paper we take a look at the glob...
Christian Fuchs, Eva Horak
AIS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
User interfaces for communication bridges across the digital divide
regarding Social Intelligence Design in an abstraction and device called the SoftBridge. The SoftBridge allows communication to flow from endpoints through adapters, getting conver...
Edwin H. Blake, William D. Tucker
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Why is connectivity in developing regions expensive: policy challenges more than technical limitations?
I present analysis examining some of the causes of poor connectivity in developing countries. Based on a technoeconomic analysis and design, I show that technical limitations per ...
Rahul Tongia
FIRSTMONDAY
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Scholarly publishing in sub-Saharan Africa in the twenty-first century: Challenges and opportunities
A free flow of ideas and information is vital to the process of scientific inquiry, and in turn to the ability to address economic, environmental and social development issues bot...
Ezra Ondari-Okemwa
JAMIA
2011
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13 years 1 months ago
Social disparities in internet patient portal use in diabetes: evidence that the digital divide extends beyond access
The authors investigated use of the internet-based patient portal, kp.org, among a well-characterized population of adults with diabetes in Northern California. Among 14 102 diver...
Urmimala Sarkar, Andrew J. Karter, Jennifer Y. Liu...