Sanjeev Dewan, CRITO Faculty Associate and Professor at The Paul Merage School of Business, has recently guest edited two special issues of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) on the Digital Divide (Vol. 6 2005 Issue 12and Vol. 7 2006 Issue 1). The journals are available at http://jais.isworld.org/contents.asp.

The edition, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the’ Digital Divide’ Part 1: Economic Perspectives,” features two papers co-authored by Dewan. The first paper, “The Digital Divide: Current and Future Research Directions,” with Fred Riggins of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, examines both first and second order effects of the digital divide at three levels of analysis – the individual level, the organizational level, and the global level. The second paper, “Across the Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Multi-Technology Analysis of the Determinants of IT Penetration,” co-authored with Dale Ganley of Michigan State University and Ken Kraemer of CRITO, studies the country-level digital divide across successive generations of IT, providing detailed insights into the magnitude and changing nature of the divide.


(CRITO Research Spotlight, April 2006)

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