The Digital Divide [electronic resource] : The View from Latin America and the Caribbean / Adolfo Rodriguez.
This paper discusses the digital divide from the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean. Highlights include: new issues that make access to electronic resources difficult for users; differences in technological infrastructure among countries; how Internet users are distributed worldwide; Int...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This paper discusses the digital divide from the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean. Highlights include: new issues that make access to electronic resources difficult for users; differences in technological infrastructure among countries; how Internet users are distributed worldwide; Internet access in Africa; the number of students per computers and number of schools with Internet access in 50 U.S. states; percentage of U.S. citizens using the Internet by race; reasons why people quit using the Internet; the online racial divide in the United States; and the digital divide in Mexico, including statistics on computer use. (Contains 16 references.) (MES) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED459781. Availability: For full text: http://www.ifla.org. ERIC Note: In: Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age. Council and General Conference: Conference Programme and Proceedings (67th, Boston, MA, August 16-25, 2001); see IR 058 199. Figures contain very small and illegible type. The text of some of the tables is in Spanish. |
| Physical Description: | 18 pages. |