Title
Information technologies: Internet access and digital divide in Peru
Other title
Tecnologías de información: Acceso a internet y brecha digital en Perú
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad del Zulia
Abstract
The incursion of the internet and information and communication technologies have generated various changes in society, which is why they have come to have a leading role in mediating development, their absence being a sign of underdevelopment. Due to this need, the present work is oriented to analyze the Information Technologies in Peru with the purpose of determining the access to Internet and existing digital gap in this particular. Qualitative, documentary study. Among the main results, adolescents and young people have the highest access to the internet (80.5%) and that the mobile device was the most used resource for this purpose (81.0%). Finally, it is concluded to become aware of the digital gap between the different sectors of Peru, in addition to urging a change in the proportion of telecommunications infrastructure and internet access facilities in the country.
Start page
504
End page
527
Volume
25
Issue
90
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Medios de comunicación, Comunicación socio-cultural
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086652039
Source
Revista Venezolana de Gerencia
ISSN of the container
13159984
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