Bridging the Digital Divide through NGOs A Study of Information Software Personnel Vocational Training Program

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Title:	Bridging the Digital Divide through NGOs A Study of Information Software Personnel Vocational Training Program
Authors:	Michael C. Chang
Keywords:	digital divide NGOs training policy
Date:	2004-07-01
Issue Date:	2010-12-20 15:01:46 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	南華大學社會學研究所
Abstract:	The issue of the digital divide has become a critical aspect of inequality and social injustice in our world particular after the first report “Falling Through the Net” issued by NTIA in 1995.　The focus of recent studies on the digital divide, however, seems to shift from the issue of physical access to information technology (IT) and the Internet to that of content and training. This paper has studied the effectiveness of the vocational training programs offered by for-profit non-government organizations (NGOs) and subsidized by Taiwan Government in an attempt to narrowing the information gap. The exploratory case study has found that by providing convenient locations and better employment opportunities, NGOs offered the information “have-nots” an alternative to bridge the information gap. However, NGOs and government should pay more attention on the problems associated with the subsidy scheme and the course design to improve the effectiveness of the vocational training programs.
Relation:	資訊社會研究 7期
Appears in Collections:	[The Journals of Nanhua University ] Journal of cyber culture and information society [Department of Applied Sociology, The M.A. Program of Sociology] Journal of cyber culture and information society

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