Despite significant improvements in nominal levels, severe gaps of digital inclusion still exist in the American economy. This paper argues that, for certain groups, migration towards mobile computing and digital inclusion may transpire from 2G voice centric mobile telecommunications to data centric mobile computing devices. Accordingly, this analysis employs a large data set to investigate what socio-economic factors are determinant for the diffusion of mobile telecommunications; how these findings can be extended to help close the digital divide; and how these findings can inform policy making concerning the digital divide.
Author Keywords: Digital divide; Mobile computing; 2G & 3G mobile communications; Internet
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26061
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Presented at the 2007 ACE/NETC conference sponsored by the International Association of Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences and National Extension Technology Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 16-19, 2007. 2 pages.
