TY - GEN
T1 - Information and communication technology use continuance behavioral intention
T2 - 51st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2018
AU - Kaba, Bangaly
N1 - Funding Information:
The author is grateful for the financial support from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of CODESRIA. He also thanks Mark Keil, the Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University for his advice and guidelines at the early stage of this work.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In the global information society, the importance of the Internet cannot be overemphasized. Unfortunately, a case in point is Africa, where, as per 2017 statistics, only 9.4 % of the population use the Internet [25]. While tremendous efforts have been made to address global Internet penetration, recent studies and statistics still indicate the digital inequality still exists today (Yu et al, 2016) and it prevents some individuals to benefit from the digital opportunities. The aim of this paper is to understand the difference in Internet use continuance by people of different economic status. The finding showed that satisfaction is the strongest precursor for Internet use continuance and it affects stronger the socio-economically advantaged groups than the socio-economically disadvantaged people. The results imply that different strategies should be adopted to bridge the digital inequality basis of socio-economic status more specifically income levels.
AB - In the global information society, the importance of the Internet cannot be overemphasized. Unfortunately, a case in point is Africa, where, as per 2017 statistics, only 9.4 % of the population use the Internet [25]. While tremendous efforts have been made to address global Internet penetration, recent studies and statistics still indicate the digital inequality still exists today (Yu et al, 2016) and it prevents some individuals to benefit from the digital opportunities. The aim of this paper is to understand the difference in Internet use continuance by people of different economic status. The finding showed that satisfaction is the strongest precursor for Internet use continuance and it affects stronger the socio-economically advantaged groups than the socio-economically disadvantaged people. The results imply that different strategies should be adopted to bridge the digital inequality basis of socio-economic status more specifically income levels.
KW - Digital inequality
KW - Income level
KW - Socio-economic status
KW - Use continuance
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M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85105377857
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 3843
EP - 3852
BT - Proceedings of the 51st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2018
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
Y2 - 2 January 2018 through 6 January 2018
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