The Changing World of ICT and Health: Crossing the Digital Divide

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Author(s): Prajesh Chhanabhai (University of Otago, New Zealand)and Alec Holt (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 18
Source title: ICT Ethics and Security in the 21st Century: New Developments and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Marian Quigley (Monash University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-573-5.ch006

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Information Security & Privacy / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has undergone rapid change in the last decade and it is now readily accessible within many communities. This change has resulted in a revolution in the healthcare sector as technology has steadily empowered the health consumer. However, the problem of the digital divide remains and may be widening with the growth of technology. This chapter will examine how developing countries have overcome this problem by using varying communication techniques to share health information. The chapter also suggests how mobile phones can provide a more accessible conduit for sharing health information in developing countries as opposed to the Internet alone. These changes need to be embraced in order to provide a framework that will allow ICT to narrow, rather than widen the gap between the information poor and the information rich.

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