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Is there a citation there that's less than a decade old? In the Digital Divide section in the first link, there was one citation from 2015, but most citations w
by SamBam 3y ago
Is there a citation there that's less than a decade old? In the Digital Divide section in the first link, there was one citation from 2015, but most citations were 2007-2011... Really not relevant to the discussion.
Also, the meaning of "unconnected" varies widely. Many of the citation in the second link aren't referring to basic cell phones. E.g., the 2017 (which, again, is seven years old) Wireless Broadband Alliance paper defines unconnected as "an unconnected individual was defined as an individual who does not have access to or cannot afford broadband connectivity."
The huge proportion of the population that I know in, say, Kenya, who use WhatsApp and use cell phones to pay for goods, do not have broadband. But the quote in question was "connected electronically." These people are definitely connected electronically.
- 1970-01-01 3y agohttps://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digitaldevelopment/overview#:~:text=The%20digital%20divide%20holds%20back,income%20countries%20use%20the%20internet https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digitaldevelopment/overvi....
- SamBam 3y agoThat page cites ITU [1], and the ITU page doesn't cite their sources at all. It may be their own numbers, but I don't see any link to a real study or methodology. They also don't define connectivity, but the section is titled "connectivity/broadband" so I assume that, again, they're only referring to broadband connectivity. 1. https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2023-09-12-universal-and-meaningful-connectivity-by-2030.aspx https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2023-09-12-unive...