Bridging the Digital Divide: A Review of Critical Factors in Developing Countries

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Author(s): Leila Nemati Anaraki (Islamic Azad University, Iran)and Azadeh Heidari (Islamic Azad University, Iran)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 25
Source title: Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tariq Ashraf (University of Delhi, India), Jaideep Sharma (Indira Gandhi National Open University, India)and Puja Anand Gulati (University of Delhi, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-767-1.ch016

Keywords: Digital Libraries / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Science

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Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), while making our life easier, created a social divide that is known as the digital divide. The global information gap is likely to widen the North – South divide and this global digital divide raises many issues for discussion that will be explored and reviewed further in this research. This chapter provides a brief overview of digital divide and the effects of some critical factors on it. Unequal investment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the potential of the Internet, the important role of education, literacy, education, e-governance, librarians, libraries and also digital libraries etc. are some discussed factors in this chapter. It concludes that paying attention to all so called critical factors can bridge and decrease this global digital divide.

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