Impact of Web 2.0 on Digital Divide in AJ&K Pakistan
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Digital divide is normally measured in terms of gap between those who can efficiently use new technological tools, such as internet, and those who cannot. It was also hypothesized that web 2.0 tools motivate people to use technology i.e. social networking sites can play an important role in bridging digital gap. The study was conducted to determine the presence of digital divide in urban and rural areas of district Muzaffrabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir. A cross-sectional community based survey was conducted involving 384 respondents from city Muzaffrabad and village Garhi Doppta. The existence of digital divide was assessed on the basis of the questionnaires given. Chi-square test was applied to find the association of different demographic and ICT related factors with internet usage. Despite the growing awareness there are possibilities of gender, age and area based digital divide. Outcomes of the survey affirmed that web 2.0 based web-sites are becoming popular and attracting people to use internet.
Authors and Affiliations
Sana Shokat, Rabia Riaz, Sanam Shahla Rizvi, Farina Riaz, Samaira Aziz, Raja Shoaib Hussain, Mohaib Zulfiqar Abbasi, Saba Shabir
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP277077
- DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090231
- Views 124
- Downloads 0
Direct Torque Control of Saturated Doubly-Fed Induction Generator using High Order Sliding Mode Controllers
The present work examines a direct torque control strategy using a high order sliding mode controllers of a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) incorporated in a wind energy conversion system and working in saturated s...
Automated Knowledge Acquisition Framework for Supply Chain Management based on Hybridization of Case based Reasoning and Intelligent Agent
Throughout the past few years, there has been notable research effort directed towards developing automated knowledge acquisition (KA) in order to automate knowledge acquisition in Supply Chain Management (SCM) applicati...
A Study of Resilient Architecture for Critical Software-Intensive System-of-Systems (Sisos)
The role of critical system-of-systems have become considerably software-intensive. A critical system-of-system has to satisfy correctness properties of liveness and safety. As critical system-of-systems have to operate...
Developing Backward Chaining Algorithm of Inference Engine in Ternary Grid Expert System
The inference engine is one of main components of expert system that influences the performance of expert system. The task of inference engine is to give answers and reasons to users by inference the knowledge of expert...
Cyber Profiling Using Log Analysis And K-Means Clustering
The Activities of Internet users are increasing from year to year and has had an impact on the behavior of the users themselves. Assessment of user behavior is often only based on interaction across the Internet without...