Digital Divide

In this chapter the authors introduce the digital-divide concept to the reader, bring its different definitions, and describe the short history of the problem. The basic figures and facts, which characterize the information and communication technologies’ usage in different countries and regions, are given as well. Also, basic indicators that allow the monitoring of the country’s advancement on the way to bridging the digital divide are stated. The main purpose for the authors was to show that the digital divide is not only (and not as much) a technical problem, but rather a social and political one. Hence, the approaches to this problem decision, both in the world community as a whole and in separate countries, are described.

Download Full-text

Digital Divide

Selected Readings on Global Information Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-116-2.ch002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 21-36

Author(s):

Liudmila Burtseva ◽

Svetlana Cojocaru ◽

Constantin Gaindric ◽

Galina Magariu ◽

Tatiana Verlan

Keyword(s):

Digital Divide ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Technical Problem ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Short History ◽

World Community ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

History Of ◽

The Way

In this chapter the authors introduce the digitaldivide concept to the reader, bring its different definitions, and describe the short history of the problem. The basic figures and facts, which characterize the information and communication technologies’ usage in different countries and regions, are given as well. Also, basic indicators that allow the monitoring of the country’s advancement on the way to bridging the digital divide are stated. The main purpose for the authors was to show that the digital divide is not only (and not as much) a technical problem, but rather a social and political one. Hence, the approaches to this problem decision, both in the world community as a whole and in separate countries, are described.

Download Full-text

The Need for Community Informatics in Malaysia

Global Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch139 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 1932-1937

Author(s):

Jayapragas Gnaniah ◽

Peter Songan ◽

Alvin W. Yeo ◽

Hushairi Zen ◽

Khairuddin Ab. Hamid

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Community Informatics ◽

The World Bank ◽

Sustainable Human Development ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Digital Gap

The Malaysian government, through many initiatives, has seriously looked into reducing and if possible eliminating, the digital divide that exists between the developed urban and the technologically impoverished rural communities. The e-Bario Project, a successful research showcase of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, is one of the leading examples in Malaysia of such an attempt to bridge the digital gap and to achieve sustainable human development through the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT). According to Harris, Bala, Songan, Khoo and Trang (2001), the World Bank had introduced a systematic approach to the application of ICT to meet the needs and bridge the digital divide of the rural community.

Download Full-text

Criminal law aspects of countering extremism in the virtual space

Current Issues of the State and Law ◽

10.20310/2587-9340-2020-4-13-141-150 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 141-150

Author(s):

Andrey Paramonov ◽

Vadim Kharin

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Criminal Law ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Virtual Space ◽

Psychological Characteristics ◽

The Internet ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

World Community ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication

The relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that extremism is one of the most dangerous phenomena in the security of the world community, which pose a threat to the whole society both with committed crimes and the destruction of generally recognized rules of morality, law and human values. We point out that in modern conditions the dissemination of extremist ideas is actively promoted by information and communication technologies, especially the Internet. It is emphasized that extremists have the opportunity not only to demonstrate their materials to a multimillion audience, but also to enter into discussions and uphold their ideas and views. The Internet is very promising for extremists. This study considers the benefits that the Internet provides in disseminating extremist information. We believe that the problem of the spread of extremist information on the Internet is especially perceptible to young people. Due to personal and psychological characteristics, this social group is very vulnerable, as they are easily imposed on the ideas and views of extremists. In the context of the active spread of extremism on the Internet, the regulatory framework for combating these crimes is extensively presented. We indicate some problems with the practical implementation of countering extremism on the Internet.

Download Full-text

The Need for Community Informatics in Malaysia

Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch091 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 512-517 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jayapragas Gnaniah ◽

Peter Songan ◽

Alvin W. Yeo ◽

Hushairi Zen ◽

Khairuddin Ab. Hamid

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Community Informatics ◽

The World Bank ◽

Sustainable Human Development ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Digital Gap

The Malaysian government, through many initiatives, has seriously looked into reducing and if possible eliminating, the digital divide that exists between the developed urban and the technologically impoverished rural communities. The e-Bario Project, a successful research showcase of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, is one of the leading examples in Malaysia of such an attempt to bridge the digital gap and to achieve sustainable human development through the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT). According to Harris, Bala, Songan, Khoo and Trang (2001), the World Bank had introduced a systematic approach to the application of ICT to meet the needs and bridge the digital divide of the rural community.

Download Full-text

W(h)ither Community: Locating participatory approaches to ICT-enabled health and development

The Journal of Community Informatics ◽

10.15353/joci.v9i2.3178 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ian Pringle

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Solomon Islands ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Development Planning ◽

Community Based ◽

Participatory Approaches ◽

World Community ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Health And Development

Around the world, community-based approaches to promote better health and development using information and communication technologies, particularly those concerned with facilitating health and development literacy and social and behaviour change, face significant challenges. Access to resources, e.g. skills and funds, is but one of those obstacles; deeper, more fundamental challenges also persist.The article identifies three key reasons why particpatory community-based appraoches have yet to make into the mainstream of health and development planning, citing examples from Malawi and the Solomon Islands.

Download Full-text

Uno de los rostros de la brecha digital en la universidad: las prácticas institucionalizadas en el uso de las TIC / One Feature of the Digital Divide in College: Institutionalized Practices in the Use of ICT

Revista Internacional de Educación y Aprendizaje ◽

10.37467/gka-revedu.v4.555 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Lilián Salado Rodríguez ◽

Erika P. Alvarez Flores

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Educación Superior ◽

Access To Higher Education ◽

Educacion Superior ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Way

ABSTRACTThe continuing evolution of information and communication technologies (ICT) and their incorporation in various social areas has triggered a series of consequences, they have fundamentally changed the way we live, learn and work. However, regular use of technologies in various areas of life is ensuring that productive use of ICT is reached so that it achieves its greatest potential in the process of teaching and learning. Digital gaps currently exist in higher education institutions, marked by the way they are implemented and used a number of structural elements and patterns of social behavior that there are conceived. In this particular research is shown how informal practices are institutionalized in organizations such as the case of universities and come to have greater influence in the behave of the main actors of the learning process, directly impacting the quality and access to higher education. A hypothesis that is verified by quantitative and qualitative methods arises. The reflections contribute to the debate on digital divide in higher education.RESUMENLa evolución continua de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) y su incorporación en los diver-sos ámbitos sociales ha desencadenado una serie de consecuencias, han cambiado fundamentalmente la forma en que vivi-mos, aprendemos y trabajamos. No obstante, el uso habitual de las tecnologías en diversos ámbitos de la vida no está garan-tizando que se alcance un uso productivo de las TIC para que se logre su mayor potencial dentro del proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Actualmente existen brechas digitales en las instituciones de educación superior, marcadas por la forma en que se implementan y usan una serie de elementos estructurales y por patrones de comportamiento social que ahí se conciben. En esta investigación en particular se muestra como se institucionalizan prácticas informales establecidas en organizaciones como el caso de las universidades y llegan a tener mayor influencia en la forma de conducirse en los actores principales del proceso formativo, impactando directamente en la calidad y el acceso a la enseñanza de los estudiantes. Se plantea una hipótesis que se comprueba mediante métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos. Las reflexiones contribuyen al debate sobre brecha digital en la educación superior. Contacto principal: [email protected]

Download Full-text

Editorial

10.25219/epoj.2021.00107 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ashwin Mahalingam ◽

Paul Chinowsky

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Way

Welcome to the first EPOJ issue of 2021. This past year has been challenging for everyone the world over and we hope that you and your near and dear ones are safe and healthy. 2020 has also pushed us as a community to rethink the entire project organising paradigm. Given the shift to working remotely, we have naturally seen newer forms of communicating and coordinating emerge driven by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The way in which work is broken down and distributed has also changed as has the means by which project organisations are governed. In some cases the pandemic has accelerated the trajectory of adoption of technologies – drones and other automatons are fast becoming commonplace in projects across the world. However, while there may have been gains during the pandemic there have been significant challenges as well.

Download Full-text

Philosophical and Aesthetic Reflection on the Pandemic Phenomenon

Observatory of Culture ◽

10.25281/2072-3156-2020-17-5-452-461 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 452-461

Author(s):

Arnold A. Oganov

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Public Life ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Human History ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

History Of Art ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

History Of

The article’s problematics is examined in the socio-cultural context. The pandemic phenomenon is considered as a metaphor derived from a pandemic of infectious diseases. The latter is nothing more than a model projected on various social evils. It is in this capacity (not in the viral-infectious one) the pandemic is used in the article. The article broadly interprets the concept of a pandemic as a universal type of general massification of a threatening nature. It is accompanied by fear, aggression, ideological delusions, economic and demographic catastrophes.Like the biomedical pandemic, its associative counterparts have been repeated with unpredictable regularity in human history. Even today, we can assume that the unforeseen consequences of information and communication technologies in the digital age bear the signs of impending pandemics. In the article, the infectious disease pandemic serves as a matrix model for characterizing an invariant version of other heterogeneous pandemics. The author builds his theoretical judgments on the material of well-known philosophical and cultural sources (L. Wittgenstein, M. Heidegger, M. Bakhtin, L. Vygotsky, S. Averintsev, R. Girard et al.), as well as on the history of art, its species and genre varieties.Particular attention is paid to the works of art whose authors intentionally give them an ambivalent meaning. A significant role is given to the subtext of the material presented, the importance of which is determined by the goal to realize the main semantic intent of the article. There is an attempt to substantiate the relevance of postmodernism culture to the modern picture of the world, to the highly ambivalent civilizational changes. The article uses the material of extensive artistic practice to trace the manifestations of postmodernism as both a symptom and a mocker of the absurdism of human existence. The final part of the article prognosticates a number of possible post-pandemic changes in various areas of public life.

Download Full-text

NARROWING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN MALAYSIA: ISSUES AND INITIATIVES

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development ◽

10.29037/ajstd.342 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 97-110

Author(s):

L.N. Foo ◽

W.K. Lai ◽

C. Elamzazuthi

Keyword(s):

Digital Divide ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Access To Information ◽

National Programmes ◽

The World ◽

Access And Equity ◽

Information And Communication

Equity of and access to information and communication technologies (ICT) is currently a burning issue in many countries around the world. Malaysia, as a nation with about 22 million inhabitants, has taken some strong strides in recent times to bridge the access and equity gaps through appropriate policies and strategic national programmes. This paper will examine some of the key elements of several of these initiatives to bridge the digital divide in the country, in particular, the Titian Digital programme. We will also be identifying some of the major challenges that this programme hopes to resolve.

Download Full-text