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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | The Role of Infrastructure in the Rural - Urban Digital Divide
Autores: | Whitacre,   Brian E.; Mills,   Bradford F.
Data: | 2005-05-13
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.
Resumo: | A significant gap exists in the percentage of rural and urban households that connect to the Internet.  Furthermore, this "digital divide" has been increasing with respect to high-speed connections.  The primary course of action to address this emerging high-speed digital divide has been to subsidize digital communications technology (DCT) infrastructure.  This paper explores the diffusion of DCT infrastructure in both rural and urban areas over the period 2000 - 2003, and estimates its contribution to the emerging divide in high-speed access.  The findings suggest that the rural - urban high-speed divide is more strongly associated with differences in household characteristics like education and income than differences in infrastructure.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

16191

http://purl.umn.edu/19352

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI

Selected Paper 136326

Formato:

37

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