374 Search Results for Internet and the Great Digital Divide
digital age is coming and soon everyone will have affordable access to the internet. At least that is the hopeful message of some. In reality, the digital age is still not accessible to many and may not be for years to come. This could be due to sev Continue Reading...
Smartphones and the Great Digital Divide
Even though 44% of African-Americans and Latinos own a smartphone while only 30% of White, non-Hispanics do, many people contend that this isn't really closing the great digital divide because African-America Continue Reading...
Digital Divide Crosses All Borders, Culturally and Geographically, Discuss How the Digital Divide Affects Society in 2014
The global segregation in myriad aspects owes due to deference of information because technology or rather the lack of it is th Continue Reading...
They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future" (OLPC, 2009).
Successful Bridging of the Digital Divide:
While the various private and international initiatives meant to reduc Continue Reading...
Whereas the radio did not reach mass media status for 38 years, and television required 13 years, the Internet soared from obscurity to 50 million users in just four years. By 1998 there were an estimated 143 million Internet users, with numbers exp Continue Reading...
Internet Voting
What is your initial point-of-view?
My initial point-of-view on the subject of a system where people could vote online in local, state, and national elections is very positive, with some reservations. For example, while it makes sen Continue Reading...
This lead was accomplished through a partnership nearly a half-century old among government, industry and academia. I member of that partnership was the National Science Foundation (NSF). As Strawn noted, early on, scientists and engineers at Americ Continue Reading...
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Lutge-Smith, T.)
There are various expert views and statistics to support the positive influence of the Internet on education. A survey conducted by Pew Internet & American Life indicates that 86% of U.S. college students use the Internet. Th Continue Reading...
Gender Inequality and Internet
Gender Inequality concerns are also plaguing the world of new technologies the same way they have been haunting us in other areas. It is widely believed that women are less frequent users of the Internet and new relate Continue Reading...
Digital World and Luxury Brands
Why do companies need a digital marketing strategy?
What is the importance of digital marketing strategy in a company? The simplistic answer is the loss of opportunities and business. Digital marketing strategy formu Continue Reading...
You'd be able to hook up to the network through your computer, interactive TV, telephone, or some future device that somehow combines the attributes of all three. Even wireless gadgets such as pagers, future versions of cellular phones, and newfangl Continue Reading...
Internet on Life
Why the Internet is the Most Useful Invention of our Generation
The Internet is the most useful invention of our generation. The accumulated effects of the Internet include significant contributions in the areas of education, the Continue Reading...
Broadband Internet Service: What it Is and Where It's Going
Explanation of Broadband
Current State of Broadband
The Future of Broadband
The current frontier of high speed internet technology and digital communications is broadband. Although it ha Continue Reading...
Media
Film & Media in the Digital Age
Remediation & Convergence
The first section of the paper will explain two terms or concepts within the context of film & media in the digital age: remediation and convergence. These two concepts ar Continue Reading...
The net result is a growing digital divide in the secondary and tertiary cities of India, overlooked for Internet access, making the prospect of creating an Internet cafe in secondary, and often less expensive cities, more difficult.
The ADSL launc Continue Reading...
young people faced (particular adolescents in high school) were pimples, pregnancy, grades and parental over-protection. There were also mean-spirited rumors that were spread, there were cliques and pecking orders, and there was bullying as well. Bu Continue Reading...
Online Access and Culture
Access to the Internet has been linked to a number of different influences over culture. As a new means of communication, the Internet has transformed how culture is disseminated around the world, but it has also had a signi Continue Reading...
Clearly from this case and others there is a critical need for the development of safeguards on consumer data captured over the Internet, both of the opt-in (where the customer approves the data being captured) and the non-opt-in variety.
An Explic Continue Reading...
airport we have kiosks and call centers and the e-services that we provide allow customers to check in online and to order tickets online. The information that is provided by the websites described here are also related to customer service as well a Continue Reading...
Introduction
Media plays a powerful role in politics in a variety of ways. Social media allows individuals to communicate ideas to followers. President Trump used social media—particularly Twitter—to great effect on the campaign trail, of Continue Reading...
Public Relations (Corporate social responsibility)
The term 'Corporate Social Responsibility' refers to the social responsibility that a Company must honor towards the public, especially those people who have direct contact with and are therefore di Continue Reading...
Digital Divide
The Social System: User, Managers, and IT Professionals
The term Digital Divide refers to the broad disparities between income groups in terms of availability of information technologies including the Internet and related services. S Continue Reading...
Music and the Internet
in order to accommodate these specifications in the number of pages requested (though the paper is 9 1/2 pages as it stands), the paper has utilized ANALYSIS in the article and the discussion section, thereby combining article Continue Reading...
Balancing National Security and Internet Freedom
Balancing Freedom
The Four Factions of the National Debate
This paper analyses the dueling philosophies of the pro-National Security vs. pro-Internet Freedom debate that has been a hot topic since t Continue Reading...
Information Technology holds great promise for improving the way a government serves its citizens in various services it conducts to the citizens. This rapid adoption of information technology has produced substantial benefits to the citizens, tax pa Continue Reading...
Question 1
Based on the case study, select one country in the Arab world and critically analyze the market demographics, then select a lucrative market segment and for that segment argue a case for a product offering based on the internet usage that Continue Reading...
In 1990, Africa had 2% of the world's telephones, but in 2000 it had only 0.8%. (These data, taken from International Telecommunications Union tables, represent fixed lines, not wireless, and there are now more mobile telephone subscribers in Afric Continue Reading...
Consequently, marketing efforts become more and more important.
Glyn Atwal and Alistair Williams (2009) for instance argue that the creators of luxury products have to use marketing efforts to identify new customers' needs even before the customers Continue Reading...
online purchases?" using the two-part approach provided below.
Description of the Participants
Sampling procedures
In most cases, the more subjects that are surveyed, the more trustworthy the results, but there are some diminishing returns involv Continue Reading...
Columbus (3) found that within the customer service arena, one CRM capability in particular demonstrated the greatest impact on profit improvement -- customer service execution.
Integration into Overall Marketing Strategy
SAP seeks to improve glo Continue Reading...
Digital Media and Its Effect on Human Activity
The effect of digital media on human activity is evident in a number of ways: the Digital Age has dispensed with old media and inducted the way of new media (social media, digitalized media) into the li Continue Reading...
Cyber Feminism, Gender and Technology
Cyberfeminism, Gender and Technology
Feminist movement found on the internet is known as Cyberfeminism. In recent times, the term has gained controversial status. Cyberfeminism, a fundamental issue from the fem Continue Reading...
This software is used to perform common tasks like storage, data back up and data transfers.
Small and medium businesses have embraced this technology because it involves no start up costs (like servers, hard disks, technicians etc.) therefore maki Continue Reading...
advances in technology. The Internet has brought the idea of instantaneous global communication to a reality; smaller and smarter chips are now included in inexpensive Smart Phones, and our ability to understand and manipulate data has vastly increa Continue Reading...
The idea of having a high level of reach is that our competitors all have a very high brand reach. The brands against which we are competing tend to be household names. In addition, new brand introductions in the industry have entered the market wit Continue Reading...
5G Technology: Bridging the Digital Divide5G stands for the fifth generation of mobile networks, the newest global wireless standard after 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G were developed: 5G has been touted as a special historic step forward because of its capacit Continue Reading...
While both gender and race are positionalities that are difficult to hide (not that one should need or want to, anyway), sexual orientation is not necessarily something that is known about a person, and its affects on the learning process can be ve Continue Reading...
This balkanization is partially driven by the lack of integration between various segments of itself, and this is primarily a technological limitation. Yet the far broader and more difficult challenge in this regard is the segregating of knowledge n Continue Reading...
Over the next twenty-five years, however, the digital divide will be decreased. Despite the slow pace of change in much of the developing world, change will occur over the next twenty-five years. In addition, the younger populations of most of thes Continue Reading...