地域情報化格差の社会経済分析-地域を分析単位として-

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This paper describes the relationship between the character of the rural area and the digital divide. The analysis was carried out by analyzing the social economic indexes (22 total) which influence the character of the community in cities, towns and villages in Kumamoto Prefecture. Three synthetic indexes are devised with the principal component analysis. The first component was the structure of industry. The second component was the scale of communication area. The third component was the ability of green tourism. Calculating the synthetic index which shows the level of regional information systems, the regression analysis with principal components reveals the following contributory factors in the development of regional information systems: the first principal component which shows a difference in the structure of industry. The digital divide in rural areas is expanding because the social economic scale is small, and there is little tertiary industry in underdeveloped and depopulated areas. The telework center which is the infrastructure of the telecommunication can support regional information systems in rural areas.