Host: The Japan Association for Social Informatics
Pages 55-58
Information society has brought about facilities and changes in our lives, especially business environments and social services. It has also brought digital divide, which is the gap at different socio-economic levels with regard both to their opportunities to access information and communications technologies and to their use of the Internet for a wide variety of activities. Digital divide is a serious demerit in modern society. Therefore, in this paper we analyze economic effects of the ICT industry in the process for reaching the information society and estimate benefits which are produced by solving digital divide based on this analysis.
