The Impact of Digital Divide on University Academic Staff and Students: A Comparative Study between the University of Zambia and the University of Strathclyde

Njobvu, Benson (2002) The Impact of Digital Divide on University Academic Staff and Students: A Comparative Study between the University of Zambia and the University of Strathclyde. Masters thesis, University of Zambia.

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Abstract

Access to electronic infonnation is becoming more and more important in the modem infonnation economy and yet developing countries like Zambia are far from putting policies in place to ensure that there is rapid infonnation communication technologies (leTs) development in the country. This has created an unequal balance between countries and sectors of the popUlation which is generally referred to as digital divide. This research outlines the digital divide that exists between the University of Zambia and the University of Strathclyde. This was established by comparing the two Universities. The research provides an overview of the state ofICT development in Zambian libraries as well as strategies that have been put in place in UK to ensure that their citizens have access to electronic infonnation. The research has revealed huge discrepancies between the two worlds in the availability of hardware in libraries, laboratories and lecture theatres as well as technology literacy between the students in Zambia and those in UK. It also reveals that there are huge problems in accessing the Internet and electronic resources in Zambia·than there are in Britain. Finally, recommendations have been made on how the University of Zambia and other libraries in developing countries in general can narrow the divide by participating in some of the initiatives that are being developed globally to ensure that the divide is narrowed.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Divisions:	Comparative
Depositing User:	Geoffrey Obatsa
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2019 11:44
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2019 11:44
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9007

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