Agribusiness and Information Management

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  • Pages.27-32
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  • 2016
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  • 2234-3075(pISSN)
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  • 2288-7806(eISSN)
한국농식품정보과학회 (Korean Society of Food and Agricultural Information Science)
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A Follow-up Study on Smart Divide Issues in Korean Rural Area

  • Lee, Jongtae (Dept. of Business Administration, Seoul Women's University)
  • 투고 : 2016.07.08
  • 심사 : 2016.07.10
  • 발행 : 2016.08.31
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Digital divide commonly means the gap among diverse stakeholders, businesses, physical areas, and individual people in terms of opportunities, accessibilities, and usabilities (Acilar, 2011). Lee and Park (2011) and Barzilai-Nahon (2006) suggested that the digital divide issues should be considered as an important public issue because proper public response may enhance or reduce the information gaps by the digital divide. This study is a follow-up study of the study of Lee and Park. This study's main aim is to clarify the changes of the digital divide in the rural areas during five years and to find out meaningful factors to reduce the gaps between the rural area and urban area. To achieve the research aim, this study analyzes the public data by ITSTAT and previous studies on the digital divide. Also this study follows the system thinking approach to model the causal relationships among diverse factors on the digital divide. With the results, this study suggests that the factors to measure the digital divide should be re-designed including smartphone penetration and accessibilities. Especially, current digital divide scoring factors should be considered in the way of social welfare.

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