Understanding global digital inequality: The impact of government, investment in business and technology, and socioeconomic factors on technology utilization

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Azari, Rasool ^a   Pick, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Global digital divide; Government investment; Socioeconomic factors; Structural equation modeling; Technological utilization

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE; GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TECHNOLOGICAL UTILIZATION;

INVESTMENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 78650760370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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