Gigler, Björn-Sören
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Digital Poverty |
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2007 |
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English Español |
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The construction of the Information Society must be complemented with pro-poor visions and policies. With this goal in mind, this paper defines the concept of information and communication poverty, introduces the criteria of poverty line locality for its identification, and suggests ways to compute the economic cost of reaching such line for its aggregate measurement. In this process, the structural and technological restrictions faced by a society are acknowledged, and the way they affect and are affected by information and communication poverty is discussed.
