Digital Poverty
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Digital Poverty |
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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.
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This paper discusses the notions of poverty, information needs and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to offer a concept of digital poverty and estimate the digital poverty level in Latin America and the Caribbean . The paper is composed of two sections. The first section contains the conceptual discussion of digital poverty, its types and possible levels. ICTs are defined based on their use and the conditions for such use. Digital poverty is therefore defined as a lack of ICTs and might be a feature of any population segment, whether or not economically poor.
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This essay analyzes the role of the market in network expansion in Latin America . Although universal access policies have achieved some degree of success in fighting the digital divide, the issue of massive access to ICTs services seems to be more directly associated with the sector's regulatory environment and with the level of competition prevailing in the sector. This essay describes the expansion process of the major operators in Latin America Telefónica Spain and Teléfonos Mexico as a result of regulatory policies implemented in their countries of origin.
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A direct relationship between democracy and development shows that the most fair and equal societies are the ones in which citizens have access to political and economic decision-making centers, through a legal system that guarantees the full exercise of their rights and the possibility of demanding accountability from the authorities for the trust deposited in them by the community. This is even more important when referring to poor people living in cities and rural areas.
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The problem discussed in this paper is the failure of ICT networks and services to effectively reach the poor, particularly those living in rural areas, in Latin America and the Caribbean . The conventional answer to this problem has been to create incentives and offer public subsidies for traditional operators to cover the difference between tariffs and cost-recovery levels.
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This chapter describes a Percolator model as a framework within which ICT solutions may be contemplated for communities under threat of digital exclusion. The model partitions the problem into manageable domains, within which realistic and appropriate ICT solutions may be progressively distilled. It gives an account of the generic attributes of information and communications and the manner in which these attributes map onto technical parameters of ICT.
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Digital Poverty |
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This chapter amalgamates the different themes raised in this first collaborative initiative of the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (REDIS-DIRSI). The research undertaken by the network addresses ICT demand and supply side issues, regulatory reform and the private sector, consumer advocacy, new ownership models for network service provision and emerging network technology solutions especially from a pro-poor perspective.
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Digital Poverty |
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2007 |
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This book represents the first publication of the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (DIRSI in Spanish), a regional network of leading researchers concerned with the creation and dissemination of knowledge that supports effective participation in the Information Society by the poor and marginalized communities in Latin American and the Caribbean.
