|
Title:
|
ADDRESSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: THE AUSTRALIAN SITUATION |
|
Author(s):
|
Pradip K. Sarkar , Mohini Singh |
|
ISBN:
|
978-972-8924-35-5 |
|
Editors:
|
Piet Kommers (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
|
Year:
|
2007 |
|
Edition:
|
Single |
|
Keywords:
|
Electronic government, Digital divide, Demand-pull/Supply-push, Australia |
|
Type:
|
Full Paper |
|
First Page:
|
18 |
|
Last Page:
|
24 |
|
Language:
|
English |
|
Cover:
|
|
|
Full Contents:
|
click to dowload 
|
|
Paper Abstract:
|
Despite the initial slow progress, governments around the world have finally adopted the Internet as means of interactions
with citizens and delivering public services. Despite the strides made by many Western governments, such as Australia,
in implementing e-Government, significant barriers to the evolution of fully-fledged e-Government services still exist,
one of which is the phenomenon of digital divide. Digital divide in Australia, a developed country with an advanced
technological base, is caused by both supply-push and demand-pull factors, the latter involving the application of social
setting approaches in understanding the phenomenon and subsequently, proposing policy changes and implementing
measures to narrow the digital divide. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
