After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet

by Jonathan Donner

An expert considers the effects of a more mobile Internet on socioeconomic development and digital inclusion, examining both potentialities and constraints.

Almost anyone with a $40 mobile phone and a nearby cell tower can get online with an ease unimaginable just twenty years ago. An optimistic narrative has proclaimed the mobile phone as the device that will finally close the digital divide. Yet access and effective use are not the same...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029928
• ISBN13: 9780262029926
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher