| 书目名称 | Gender, Internet Use, and Covid-19 in the Global South | | 副标题 | Multiple Causalities | | 编辑 | Jeffrey James | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Discusses the determinants of digital skills in the Global South.Examines the extent of the digital divide between males and females in mobile Internet use.Based on recent data and empirical evidence | | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Economics | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South. The book argues that the degree of benefits from this new technology depends heavily on the way it is actually used and that most new technologies are developed for the conditions prevailing in rich countries, where they tend to be quite easily adopted and used. In the Global South, by contrast, a paucity of digital skills and other factors make the potentially valuable benefits from the Internet much more difficult to derive. .Using empirical data recently provided by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), the book examines the existence and extent of the digital divide between males and females in mobile Internet use, which constitutes a new form of divide. It sheds light on the acute difficulty for first-time mobile Internet users in the Global South, and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, to learn the digital skills that are needed to use the said technology effectively, with a special focus on how these users acquire the required knowledge, without having undergone the process of learning by doi | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Pandemic; Digital divide; Gender bias; Sub-Saharan Africa; GSMA; Digital skills; Development; Education; New | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15576-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-15575-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-15576-5Series ISSN 2191-5504 Series E-ISSN 2191-5512 | | issn_series | 2191-5504 | | copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |
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