China's prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion

doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102072

	China's prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion
	Song, Zhouying 2,3; Wang, Chen 1; Bergmann, Luke 4
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
	2020-06-01
卷号	52 页码:12
关键词	Digital divide Prefectural cities Spatial difference Cluster Impact factor
ISSN号	0268-4012
DOI	10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102072
通讯作者	Song, Zhouying(songzy@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Much research has made efforts to elaborate upon different dimensions to the digital divide, including informational and communications technology (ICT) access, ICT usage, and ICT outcomes. We assess the utility of such perspectives for studying digital inequality across prefectural cities in China. China is the world's largest ICT market in terms of the number of mobile devices in use, internet users, and broadband subscriptions, yet it has notable digital inequality within and between provinces, prefectural cities, and counties. In this study, we built a conceptual framework of digital divides for prefectural cities in China, examined spatial agglomeration using cluster analysis, and explored the leading correlates using a geographically-weighted regression (GWR) model. A large digital divide among the prefectural cities in China was revealed, with cities with a high administrative level having a relatively high digital development index(DDI) score. Prefectural cities with high DDI levels are mainly agglomerated in large metropolitan areas, such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the West Coast Economic Zone of the Taiwan Straits. Prefectural cities with low DDI levels are concentrated in the rural-mountainous regions in southwest China and poverty-stricken areas in central and western China. This study also found that the leading determinants of the digital divide are urban residential income, the secondary education gross enrollment ratio, rural residential income, and the working age population ratio, which indicates that socio-economic problems, rather than institution and innovation aspects, have to be solved for improving ICT use and outcomes.
资助项目	Program of the Natural Science Foundation of China[41371006] ; Program of the Natural Science Foundation of China[41671127]
WOS关键词	INTERNET ACCESS ; EUROPEAN-UNION ; MODEL ; TECHNOLOGY ; TELECOMMUNICATIONS ; INFORMATION ; INEQUALITY ; COMPUTER
WOS研究方向	Information Science & Library Science
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000519969300024
资助机构	Program of the Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/133556]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Song, Zhouying
作者单位	1.Zhejiang Univ, Hangzhou 31000, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 4.Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Song, Zhouying,Wang, Chen,Bergmann, Luke. China's prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT,2020,52:12.
APA	Song, Zhouying,Wang, Chen,&Bergmann, Luke.(2020).China's prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT,52,12.
MLA	Song, Zhouying,et al."China's prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 52(2020):12.