Tracking the Digital Divide: Studying the Association of the Global Digital Divide with Societal Divide

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Author(s): Marc Holzer (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)and Aroon Manoharan (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 12
Source title: E-Government Development and Diffusion: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Digital Democracy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ganesh P. Sahu (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India), Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK)and Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-713-3.ch004

Keywords: Electronic Government / Government & Law / Information Science Reference

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The chapter is based on a study of global municipal Web portals conducted through a collaboration between the E-Governance Institute at Rutgers-Newark, USA, and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. The joint study ranked municipalities worldwide based on their scores in five e-governance categories of security and privacy, usability, content, services and citizen participation. Crucial trends in the development of the municipal Web portal indicate a growing digital divide between cities belonging to the OECD and non-OECD nations. This chapter attempts to understand the correlates of this divide, by exploring the association of this digital divide to other divides - social, political, economic and literacy divides among nations, particularly those between OECD and non-OECD nations.

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