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The study scrutinizes the Information Inequality and Digital Divide. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to assess the inequality of information in an Organization, investigate the effect of Information Inequality and Digital Divide in an Organization, examine the digital divide of information in an Organization, define the meaning of the term “digital divide”, learn about possible measurement methods and assess the magnitude of digital inequalities in an Organization. The research design used in this report is descriptive design, utilizing questionnaire method to obtain information from the respondents for this project. A total of 133 (one hundred and thirty three) respondents were selected for this study to represent the entire population of the study. For null hypotheses were formulated and tested using the one-way ANOVA and the t-test statistical tools at 0.05 level of significance. Primary data were collected from the primary source which questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection while secondary data were sources from textbooks, journals, newspapers and the internet were employed. The data were presented on a frequency distribution table and analyzed using simple percentage, while hypothesis was tested using chi-square test. This study will be of immense benefit to other researchers who intend to know more on this study and can also be used by non-researchers to build more on their research work. This study contributes to knowledge and could serve as a guide for other study.
1.1 Introduction
The digital divide is an economic phenomenon and it should be analyzed as such. Although it employs considering the strictly technical side of ICTs, on the other hand it has strong economical implications. If understood in such a way, the analysis of the problem of uneven ICTs implementation cannot be limited to the pure technological side solely. In today's world we can observe fast development of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). At the same time, almost in each country, one of the main targets of economic policy targets is fast implementation of ICTs in wide range of fields. Despite lacking any quantitative proof that ICTs implementation, does have positive influence of economic growth, case studies from all around the world show that ICTs usage influence positively general welfare of society. If it so, fast implementation of ICTs becomes highly desirable action which requires fosters economic and social development. However, ICTs implementation is highly uneven in different countries. There is no need to run highly sophisticated statistical analysis to see great inequalities among countries in ICTs adoption.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
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