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“Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide”

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E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy (TCGOV 2005)

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This paper presents a comparative study on digital divide between a region and its main metropolitan area. The exercise shows how barriers to technology access and usage may vary in terms of both nature and intensity. The paper also proposes a taxonomy of the different types of digital divides that may be present inside a region.

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  1. Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Via Boggio 61, 10138, Turin, Italy

    Enrico Ferro

  2. Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), Cso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Turin, Italy

    Marco Cantamessa & Emilio Paolucci

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Dominikanerplatz-3, I-39100, Bozen, Italy

    Michael Böhlen

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Johann Gamper

  3. Institute of Statistics and Economics, University of Basel, Petersplatz 1, 4003, Basel, Switzerland

    Wolfgang Polasek

  4. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

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Ferro, E., Cantamessa, M., Paolucci, E. (2005). “Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide”. In: Böhlen, M., Gamper, J., Polasek, W., Wimmer, M.A. (eds) E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy. TCGOV 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32257-3_8

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