Encastrement social et usages de l'Internet: une analyse jointe du commerce et de l'administration électronique

Raphael Suire ()

Economie & Prévision, 2007, vol. n° 180-181, issue 4, 161-174

Abstract: Until now, the political discourse on the digital divide implied a spatial dimension. The main issue was the difference between people who ?have? ICT access and those who ?do not.? Henceforth, it is important to distinguish between ICT adoption and ICT usage. The ?first-level? digital divide is governed by financial and socio-economic determinants. The ?second-level? digital divide concerns ICT use and is essentially determined by individual social embedding. Officials must therefore take both digital divides into account in order to develop efficient incentive policies. We show that e-commerce and e-government are non-correlated and that socially embeddedness proxies distinct ICT usages. In our structural approach, human capital, economic capital, and multi-level social capital must be stimulated in different ways for each ICT usage.

Keywords: second-level digital divide; social embeddedness; biprobit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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