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8. Digital Divide
• Jan van Dijk and Kenneth Hacker (2003) distinguish
four barriers to access to digital services.
• Lack of elementary digital experience
• No possession of computers and network connections
• Lack of digital skills
• Lack of significant opportunities -> In the case of
Rwanda there is a lack of usage access.
• http://vis4.net/blog/posts/mapping-internet-and-
population/
9. Beeping by Donner
• Mobile’s feature is connectivity. The benefits are both positive economic and social changes.
• powerful technique to maximize the benefits of a mobile whilst minimizing money
expenditure
10.
11. • In Rwanda users have taken this to next level
by diversifying this practice. There are three
kinds of beeping
• Call back
• Pre-negotiated instrumental
• Relational
12. • allowing users to feel connected.
• It is a “phatic communication” signaling the
existence of a relationship or communication
channel.
13. mobiles are rewriting the spatial and temporal
constraints of all manner of human
communications – whether for working family,
or recreation and entertainment
• http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/27/tech/mobil
e-culture-usage/index.html
14. However…
However:
• Smart phones are still not fully exploited
• no location based services (LBS) – which makes navigation,
maps, google maps relies on LBS to find destinations
• lack of apple-supported networks e.g. Iphones do not
recognize phone number if it comes with a country code –
comes up with ID-mismatch
• Lack of app development – more work on SM based
solutions to help similar phones do things like buying
power, use twitter, interact with banks.
• Andriod is more popular
• Combined with limited number of people with purchasing
power to buy apps.
15. Discussion
• 1. Form groups 2. discuss with class
• When you wake up in the morning how long is
it until you use your mobile or Internet?
• How would you feel if your mobile and Internet
was taken off you for 3 days?
• Do you think you could organize your life without
your mobile?
• Choose one question and
• Tweet #MDIA5003 your answer
16. bibliography
• Mobile Telephony in Rwanda: An Ownership/Access Typology, Kowledge, Technology, & Policy, 2006, vol.19, No.2,pp.17-28
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• Donner, J (2007), The rules of beeping: Exchanging messages via international “missed calls” on mobile phone, Journal of Computer Mediated
Communication, 13(1), article 1.http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/donner.html
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• Jan van Dijk & Kenneth Hacker (2003): The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon, The Information Society: An International
Journal, 19:4, 315-326
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• Aisch, G , ‘Visualiziing the Global Digital Divide by Mapping Internet and Population’, 21/10/2011,accessed
5/10/2012, http://vis4.net/blog/posts/mapping-internet-and-population/
• our bibliography should look something like this – LastName, FirstName.(Month Day, Year).'Title of the Article' Retrived Month Day, Year from the
website: http://www.abcde.com
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• TheVJMovement, ‘Rwandan Farmers Empowered by Mobile Access to Market Prices’, April 12, 2011, accessed 4/10/2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOSL1KyeG0
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• Canton N, 20120, ‘Cell phone culture: How cultural differences affect mobile use’, September 28, 2012, accessed
4/10/2012,http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/27/tech/mobile-culture-usage/index.html
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• December 12, 2011, Smartphone Penetration Rates by Country, accessed 7/10/12, shttp://communities-
dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/12/smartphone-penetration-rates-by-country-we-have-good-data-finally.html
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• Bight E, 2012, ‘Smartphone still not fully exploited in Rwanda’, Monday April 30th 2012, accessed 7/10/12
• http://focus.rw/wp/2012/04/smartphones-still-not-fully-exploited-in-rwanda/