United States Digital Divide

James B. Pick () and Avijit Sarkar ()
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James B. Pick: University of Redlands
Avijit Sarkar: University of Redlands

Chapter Chapter 8 in The Global Digital Divides, 2015, pp 235-274 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The United States is a technology powerhouse and has the largest global economy, although its ICT utilization does not rank it in the top 15 worldwide. Our U.S. conceptual model posits that fourteen independent factors are associated with eight dependent ones. Several unique factors for states are overall freedom index, election performance index, and Putnam’s social capital index. Spatially, cluster analysis shows the U.S. to have four clusters of states with no single, high outliers as in China, India, and Japan. The two clusters with higher use include one that includes much of the northeast and New England, plus California, Alaska, and Hawaii and a second centered in the Rocky Mountain and upper Midwestern states. The central and lower South cluster has the lowest levels. Findings show that social capital, education, societal openness, urbanization, and ethnic factors are associated with use of ICTs. The State of Georgia case exemplifies that government can stimulate a state’s technology through proactive programs, while a Nebraska case examines small enterprise challenges in ICT in view of our findings.

Keywords: Social Capital; Spatial Autocorrelation; Internet Access; Federal Communication Commission; Digital Divide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46602-5_8

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