The present study aimed to explore the association between smart phone and internet usage and social media usage among college students in Chennai city of Tamil Nadu. The researchers have adopted survey method to collect primary responses in online survey through structured questionnaire from...

This paper presents new estimates of the share of jobs that can be performed from home. The analysis is based on the task content of occupations, their information and communications technology requirements, and the availability of internet access by country and income groupings. Globally, one...

Digital skills constitute one of the five foundational pillars of the Digital Economy for Africa (DE4A) initiative, launched by the World Bank, and are needed to mobilize digital innovations to transform economies, societies and governments in Africa. The other foundational pillars are digital...

Tens of thousands of people across the United States are subject to bans on their Internet and social media access due to sex offense convictions. This Article explains why, even for those on parole and probation, such bans are frequently over-broad, imposed on the wrong people, and are now ripe...

The studies on digital divide emphasizes two main tenets in the research agenda: ICT access and ICT usage. Our research seeks to analyze the gender digital divide in terms of ICT usage narrowing our focus on internet use in Mexico.Even though the literature has consistently accumulated evidence...

In the context of increasing digitization and persistent digital inequality, scholars have sought to uncover the mechanisms that explain why people engage with, or disengage from, internet applications. We provide a new vantage to this conversation by conducting a qualitative study among 16...

This article studies whether and how mobile Internet networks compete with traditional fixed-line Internet networks by examining the how the quality of local fixed-line Internet service influences mobile Internet adoption and use. An empirical analysis shows that local fixed-line Internet speed...

This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received...

This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...