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Digital Divide Articles

Digital divide

Digital divide in Canada

Digital divide in the United States

Digital divide in South Africa What Dr. Benoit says our page will end up looking like

Source list

Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria^[1]

Africa and the digital divide^[2]

Digital Divide in Rural Nigeria: ^[3]

Digital Divide: Bridging the Gap through ICT in Nigerian Libraries^[4]

Bridging the Digital Divide: The Nigerian Journey so Far^[5]

Impact of Digital Divide of E-learning in Nigeria ^[6]

References

^ Intel Corporation (2007). [| Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria]. (PDF). White Paper. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
^ Fuchs, Christian; Horak, Eva. "Africa and the digital divide". ScienceDirect. Telematics and Informatics. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
^ McLean, Pamela. "Human Networks Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural Nigeria". Public Sphere Project. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ Nkanu, W.O. "Digital Divide: Bridging the Gap through ICT in Nigerian Libraries". The University Library Cross River University of Technology Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ Arikpo, I.; Osofisan, A; Usoro, A.(2009). [the Digital Divide: The Nigerian Journey so Far].(PDF). International Journal of Global Business. Retrieved 7 October 2017
^ Nwegbu, Mercy U. (Ph.D). "The Impact of Digital Divide on E-learning in Nigeria" (PDF). aistonline.org. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

Group Comments

   First of all, excellent work on the beginning of your outline. However, make sure you are doing most of the work in the sandbox and not in your talk page. Also, I would recommend going forward that each person types their name next to the section they are working on, as this will make it easier to see who is doing what during the drafting process. I am including a link to the Digital Divide in South Africa page. This is an excellent example of about how much you should be writing in each section, though obviously your sections will likely not be identical to the South African ones. [Divide in South Africa]
   Remember, if you need any extra help to come to mine or Dr. Benoit's office hours. Again, great job on the beginning of your project!

Mmaggi9 (talk) 18:08, 11 October 2017 (UTC) Melanie Maggio: TA for LIS 2000[reply]

Group Comments for the Draft

You do have an excellent outline for your article, now this week you will need to finish your first draft. Make sure that you have a good lead as your first paragraph, and then break into your sections. Make sure you keep everything focused on the digital divide in Nigeria, and contact Dr. Benoit and I if you have any questions.

Mmaggi9 (talk) 03:26, 17 October 2017 (UTC) Melanie Maggio: TA for LIS 2000[reply]

Additional comments

As our TA said, you have a good structure and sections. Now you just need to fill in the sentences. Eabenoit (talk) 15:49, 23 October 2017 (UTC)eabenoit[reply]

Peer Review

Upon reviewing this article, I think it has really good structure and organization. The sections are presented in a very logical order; reasons, effects, and solutions. One suggestion I’d make would be to maybe change the title of the “Reasons for the Divide” section to “Causes”. I just think it would make the article flow a little more seamlessly and “Causes” might correspond a little better with your other section titles (“Causes”, “Effects”, “Solutions”). Aside from that, I think your structure is really good and is setting you up for a really well organized, easy to read article. A few content mistakes I caught regarding format and grammatical issues:

-The first sentence under “Digital Divide in Nigeria” is a bit confusing. I think this may be because you’re missing a word somewhere. I might suggest changing; “Nigeria's digital divide refers to the inequality of Nigerian individuals, groups, or organizations to Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure or the internet for municipal use.” to “Nigeria's digital divide refers to the inequality of access to information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure or the internet for municipal use within the Nigerian community.”

- The second sentence reads, “Education, lack of electrical infrastructure, income, and urban drift,[4] contributes to Nigeria's growing digital divide as well as a variety of other social and political factors.” I’d change this to “Education, lack of electrical infrastructure, income, urban drift,[4] and a variety of other social and political factors contribute to Nigeria's growing digital divide.” just for the sake of flow. If you don’t like the change in sentence structure, make sure you still change “contributes” to contribute”.

-Remove comma after enhancement and before and in last sentence of lead.

-Under “Reasons for the Divide”, I think the section does a good job of explaining economy issues and illiteracy; however, I think it needs to be extended to explain how those issues relate to/cause the digital divide.

-Under “Effects”, add “an” (person without an education)

-I think the section that talks about the educational system also needs to be elaborated upon to include connections to the digital divide

-Under “Youth Instability”, the first sentence is a little redundant; I think it would be better just to begin with, “The digital divide has had a significant impact on Nigerian youth.” I think this part needs a bit of restructuring; maybe more encyclopedic language.

-Under “E-Learning” in the “Solutions” section, change “uses” to “use” in the second sentence. This section also needs some restructuring and improved word choice for the sake of being more encyclopedic.

-Under “Social Security” in the “Solutions” section, I’d change the phrasing in the first sentence to, “lower the poverty level”

Overall, I think this article is headed in a good direction. It manages to hit on a lot of different topics within the discussion of causes, effects, and solutions. The thing I’d suggest to focus on most is just elaborating on some of the topics that don’t have much information, tying in these topics to the digital divide more, and keeping the diction and syntax as encyclopedic as possible. Madison hadden (talk) 17:02, 25 October 2017 (UTC)M.Hadden[reply]

Peer Review Reply

Thank you, Madison, for touching on some improvements that need to be made to make our draft better. I agree with you on changing the wording of "Reasons for the Divide" to "Causes" to make the structure flow better to the reader. Also, thank you for suggesting a few sentence changes. I think this will also make the flow of the article even better. And lastly, thanks on catching those grammatical errors. Sometimes you just look right over that when focusing on what to write. Goodluck with your article drafting! Brookecambre (talk) 20:11, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We plan on making a few grammatical changes as Madison suggests in her peer review. We also plan on changing a few sentences to make it easier for the reader to follow along. Additionally, we plan on elaborating under the heading “Electricity” as Tony suggested. And we also plan on fixing our sixth reference source so that it is supported by a link. We feel all of these suggestions will help our article become a better read. Brookecambre (talk) 19:51, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Reading this article I felt all of the information was on topic, and and the various headings were helpful. From the reasons, effects, and solutions they are all thoroughly explained. The article seemed to be neutral without any bias. The heading about electricity is very slim and dosnt really provide any valuable information. The sixth refrence wasn't supported by an actual link. It just led to an error page. The rest of the citations led to credible sites who wernt biased. All of the sources have been recent and didn't miss anything. -Tony Murray

Peer Review Reply (Kim Pham)

I greatly appreciate your peer reviews and constructive criticism Madison and Tony. It really has helped out our writing and will help make our article better. I have already made the grammatical and stylistic changes that Madison suggested in her peer review, and I have noted that both Tony and Madison want us to further elaborate on our topics (especially Electricity). What I plan on doing is to read over the articles again or possibly find more sources so I can add more to my portions. I think I can also combine the electricity and public space into one section. KimPham (talk) 22:01, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review reply (Devin)

Thank you both for the reviews. Thank you for pointing out all of the grammatical issues and the flow of a few of the sections. I plan on fixing all of the grammatical errors pointed out that is always the hardest part for me just need to take my time and re read more slowly to fix those careless mistakes. I also agree that some of the sections need a better flow to them so they will sound better. I plan to read over the article and fix what sections should flow better and I will also go over and fix the grammatical errors in the article.Devinhoffmann15 (talk) 22:47, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New information and sources to add to the article on Digital Divide in Nigeria I have the following sources to ad information to the article on digital divide in Nigeria.

1. Abel, U. (2009). Bridging the digital divide in Nigeria. The Nigerian Journey so far. International journal of Global Business 2 (1), 181 -204

2. Gbenga-Ilori, A. O and Ibiyemi, T.S.. (2010). Directing the digital dividend towards bridging the digital divide in Nigeria. European journal of Scientific Research. esearchgate.net/profile/Abiodun-Gbenga-Ilori/publication/292566657_Directing_the_digital_dividend_towards_bridging_the_digital_divide_in_Nigeria/links/5804ce8608aef179365e5047/Directing-the-digital-dividend-towards-bridging-the-digital-divide-in-Nigeria.pdf

3. Adeleke, R. (2020) Digital Divide in Nigeria: The role of regional differentials. African journal of Science Technology, Innovation and Development. : https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2020.1748335

4. Tayo, O; Thompson, R and Thompson, E. (2016). Impact of the Digital Divide on computer use and internet access on the poor in Nigeria. Journal of Education and Learning 5:1. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1085410.pdf

5. Nkanu, W.O and Okon, H.I (2010). Digital divide: Bridging the gap through ICT in Nigerian Libraries. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphlprac/492

Ngozi osadebe (talk) 14:42, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[:0-1] Intel Corporation (2007). [| Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria]. (PDF). White Paper. Retrieved 20 September 2017.

[2] Fuchs, Christian; Horak, Eva. "Africa and the digital divide". ScienceDirect. Telematics and Informatics. Retrieved 30 September 2017.

[:2-3] McLean, Pamela. "Human Networks Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural Nigeria". Public Sphere Project. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

[:3-4] Nkanu, W.O. "Digital Divide: Bridging the Gap through ICT in Nigerian Libraries". The University Library Cross River University of Technology Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

[5] Arikpo, I.; Osofisan, A; Usoro, A.(2009). [the Digital Divide: The Nigerian Journey so Far].(PDF). International Journal of Global Business. Retrieved 7 October 2017

[:1-6] Nwegbu, Mercy U. (Ph.D). "The Impact of Digital Divide on E-learning in Nigeria" (PDF). aistonline.org. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

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