The new opportunities of digital inclusion are unfairly distributed. So, the digital divide amplifies existing inequalities.
We quantify this effect, and find increasing amplification of both local and global inequalities. Our analysis identifies loci for interventions intended to close the digital divide.
You can click on the image above to download the poster (pdf 2.2Mb) a minor correction to the one presented at ICTD 2016 (the wrong map of Scotland, coloured to a different criterion, had been included in error)
The published note, contains a preliminary report on this work.
@inproceedings{Fourman:2016:MBA:2909609.2909616,
author = {Fourman, Michael Paul},
title = {Measuring the Broadband Access Divide},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development},
series = {ICTD '16},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4306-0},
location = {Ann Arbor, MI, USA},
pages = {33:1--33:4},
articleno = {33},
numpages = {4},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2909609.2909616},
doi = {10.1145/2909609.2909616},
acmid = {2909616},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Gini, deprivation, digital, divide, global, inequality, local},
}
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