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An Integrated Framework for Analyzing Domestic and International Digital Divides

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Digital divides have become an important issue that attracts a great attention of almost every country in the world and major international organizations. However, few or none of the previous researches have taken into account both domestic and international digital divide issues at the same time and offered an integrated view to structurally illustrate these issues from various aspects. The goal of this paper is to propose an integrated framework for assessing and analyzing domestic and international digital divides of a country or a group of countries. Situations of digital divides in Taiwan, three other industrialized economies in southeastern Asia, and four northern European countries are examined and compared based on the framework. Related e-government strategies for bridging the divides are also discussed.

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  1. Dept. of Management Information Systems, National ChengChi University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chien-Chih Yu & Hsing-I Wang

  2. Dept. of IMS, Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsing-I Wang

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  1. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Yu, CC., Wang, HI. (2004). An Integrated Framework for Analyzing Domestic and International Digital Divides. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_49

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