Internet access in the European Union and in the United States
Telematics and Informatics - Special issue: Regulating the internet: EU and US perspectives
Information Technology for Development - Special issue: Information technology for health care in Mozambique
A multivariate framework for the analysis of the digital divide: evidence for the European Union-15
Information and Management
Factors of broadband development and the design of a strategic policy framework
Telecommunications Policy
Development of telecommunication and broadcasting infrastructure indices at the global level
Telecommunications Policy
Sizing Up Information Societies: Toward a Better Metric for the Cultures of ICT Adoption
The Information Society - The Philosophy of Information, its Nature, and Future Developments
An index for cross-country analysis of ICT infrastructure and access
Telecommunications Policy
Research Note---Social Interactions and the “Digital Divide”: Explaining Variations in Internet Use
Information Systems Research
Disparities in ICT adoption: A multidimensional approach to study the cross-country digital divide
Telecommunications Policy
The diffusion of the Internet: A cross-country analysis
Telecommunications Policy
ICT capital and labour productivity growth: A non-parametric analysis of 14 OECD countries
Telecommunications Policy
The impact of ICT development on the global digital divide
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Digital divide across the European Union
Information and Management
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Despite the efforts devoted to the analysis of the digital divide over the last years, the regional evidence on this issue is still scarce. Within this context, the goals of this paper are twofold: (1) measuring the digital divide across the regions of the 27 Member States and within each country and (2) explaining the observed regional disparities. The analysis leads to identify Dutch regions as the Top-10 in ICT, while Greece and Bulgaria occupy the Bottom-10. Therefore, results show that the regional digital divide reflects to some extent the income gap. However, regional policy seems to be having some positive implications for technology adoption. In particular, the rural-versus-urban dimension of the digital gap appears to be less important than it is usually claimed to. Likewise, some evidence is found of the role of cultural and institutional factors in ICT adoption, an issue that has not been previously analyzed at the regional level.