The digital divide, financial exclusion and mobile phone technology: Two problems, one solution?

Journal of International Trade Law and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Geach, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing world; Digital divide; Digital technology; Electronic communications; Financial exclusion; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349688210     PISSN: 14770024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14770020780000547     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. ‘The Digital Divide revisited: The Grand Canyon of the online environment’, Kevin Rogers, Presented at Cyberspace 2006, Masaryk University Brno.
2. The 2006 Index is available at www.itu.int/osg/spu/statistics/DOI/index.phtml
3. ‘The Digital Divide in 2025’ An independent study conducted by BT 2004, available at http://www.groupbt.com/Societyandenvironment/PDF/Digitaldivide2025.pdf
4. National Statistics Omnibus Survey 2006, available at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=8&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=374
5. The 2002 Omnibus survey shows only 32% of households in the North East England and 36% in Scotland had Internet access compared to 48% in South East. Available at www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/intacc0702.pdf
6. Available at www.citizensonline.org/statistics
7. The Family Resources Survey 2002 – 2003 available at www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/frs/2002_03/pdfonly/frs_2002_03_report.pdf
8. ‘Hackers will target mobile banking, study warns’, reported by John Blau, 23/01/2007 available at www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=7828&pagtype=all