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Access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is becoming a necessity not only for communication, but for commerce, and for obtaining information about healthcare, employment, and education. Unfortunately, the global digital divide has deepened to include limits on access to mobile broadband services. This paper uses an information ethics (IE) perspective, based the work of Floridi,...
The authors examine the broadband digital divide by analyzing the impact of policy and regulation on broadband Internet diffusion. Their multiple regression analysis shows factors that determine broadband diffusion in technologically developed countries do not necessarily have the same impact in less developed countries. They show that in technologically developed countries, there is greater broadband...
Since 2000, there has been a flurry of policy activity to address the problem of human trafficking. A wide consensus has formed in most of the international community on the nature of the problem. However, there is considerable disagreement among scholars and activists over definitions and how best to address the problem. A content analysis of relevant articles in The New York Times and Washington Post...
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