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Are Public Policies Aimed In The Right Direction?: Analysis of the True Reason of Spanish Households for Have No Internet Access

Are Public Policies Aimed In The Right Direction?: Analysis of the True Reason of Spanish Households for Have No Internet Access

Isabel Novo-Corti, María Barreiro-Gen
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 5 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 10
ISSN: 1947-8429|EISSN: 1947-8437|EISBN13: 9781466655461|DOI: 10.4018/ijksr.2014040104
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Novo-Corti, Isabel, and María Barreiro-Gen. "Are Public Policies Aimed In The Right Direction?: Analysis of the True Reason of Spanish Households for Have No Internet Access." IJKSR vol.5, no.2 2014: pp.33-42. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijksr.2014040104

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Novo-Corti, I. & Barreiro-Gen, M. (2014). Are Public Policies Aimed In The Right Direction?: Analysis of the True Reason of Spanish Households for Have No Internet Access. International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR), 5(2), 33-42. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijksr.2014040104

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Novo-Corti, Isabel, and María Barreiro-Gen. "Are Public Policies Aimed In The Right Direction?: Analysis of the True Reason of Spanish Households for Have No Internet Access," International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 5, no.2: 33-42. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijksr.2014040104

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Abstract

Digital divide is one of the major problems of Information Society and is linked with social exclusion. This work is focus on Spain situation and its relative position in the European Union, and study the major key points of it through the household reasons for have no Internet Access, taking into account socio-economics variables, as a key point that can be help to understand the relative situation of Spain in the European Union related with ICT and to elaborate suitable public policies to reduce digital divide. Results have shown that the most important reason that Spanish households do not have access to Internet is that people feel they do not need it, because they not consider Internet useful or interesting. It is proposed the design of public policies that take into account the important lack of motivation and good attitude towards Internet in the most of Spanish households without Internet.

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