THE IMPACT OF ICT ON SOCIAL COHESION:LOOKING BEYOND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

Written during the second half of 2004 for debate at the 11th Economic Forum in Krynica,Poland, this report is one of three contributions to the FISTE project which aim to documentand identify research and policy issues to support the achievement of the Lisbon Objectives.These issues result from the following three major challenges (identified in earlier research byIPTS3) that will influence the development of the Information Society in Europe during thepresent decade:1. Changing competitive pressure: Innovation and the economic use of ICT.2. Growing social divides: the role of ICT in the social/digital mismatch.3. Emerging growth/demography squeeze: the tertiary transition in education.

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Year of publication:	2004-11-01
Authors:	Hüsing, Tobias
Institutions:	Empirica GmbH <Bonn>
Published in:	Empirica, Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung <Bonn> - discussion paper
Subject:	Europäische Union \| Internet \| Älterer Mensch

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Foreword
Preface
1. Rationale
2. Social Divides: Challenged cohesion in the New Member States
2.1 Bits and pieces of a definition
2.2 Income inequality and poverty
2.3 Employment, unemployment and poverty
2.4 Other challenges
2.5 Conclusion
3. Digital divides: ICT adoption in the New Member States
3.1 ICT adoption and GDP
3.2 ICT adoption and individual profiles
3.3 ICT skills and individual profiles
3.4 Conclusion
4. Social divides: Can ICT help?
4.1 Internet use and employability: some empirical evidence from CEEC
4.2 Conclusion
5. National social and digital divides: Match or mismatch?
5.1 Insights in Estonia: Unemployment and ICT use
5.2 Insights in Poland: Unemployment and ICT use
5.3 Insights in Hungary: Educational attainments and ICT use
5.4 Insights in Slovenia: Aged population and ICT use
6. Conclusions
References
Annex: Logistic regression analysis of unemployment

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