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Digital Inclusion Factors among Middle-Class Women in Kerala India
Dr Kim M Thompson Lecturer, School of Information Studies
Charles Sturt University SIS Research Seminar 2015, February 25
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2013
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Dr Anindita Paul
• Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
• IT & Systems department
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Dr Anindita Paul
• Medium grant research project • “ICT Use by Indian Women” • Everyday life information seeking or small
worlds framework
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Ethics approval?
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ICT for meeting needs of different user groups, including women, children and other disadvantaged groups.
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Identifying factors beyond basic lack of physical access that influence personal attitudes toward ownership and regular use of smart phones, tablets, and laptops.
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When a middle class, well educated woman
has technology at her fingertips, what are factors that encourage or discourage use in her everyday life?
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Explore issues of access and use that extend beyond poverty and lack of education.
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India
• Middle class growing “twice as fast as the overall world population” (World Bank, 2007)
• 3rd highest number of Internet users worldwide
(Internet World Stats, 2014)
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India
• 88.07% of India’s Internet users access the Internet with mobile devices (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, 2013)
• 59% of users access the Internet via mobile devices only (Bughin & Manyika, 2012)
• Hotels, restaurants, airports, shops, railway stations with public wifi (Government of India Ministry of Communications & IT, 2009)
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India
• Still... – Only 15.1% of the populace is accessing the
Internet (International Telecommunications Union, 2013)
– Only one quarter of this subgroup is female (Intel, 2013)
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physical access
social access intellectual access
Burnett, Jaeger, & Thompson, 2008; Thompson & Afzal, 2011; Thompson et al, 2014
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Physical access
• Lower-middle income country • Gendered economic inequality (World Economic Forum,
2013)
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Intellectual access
• Gendered literacy and labour inequality (Sundaram & Vanneman, 2007)
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Social access
• “one in five women in India…believe the Internet is ‘not appropriate’ for them….These women believe engaging online would not be useful for them, and if they did, their families would disapprove” (Intel, 2013, p. 12)
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Kerala
• High literacy rate: 93.91% (Government of Kerala, 2011)
– Female 91.98% – Male 96.02%
• High status of women in terms of education and professional positions (Government of Kerala, 2011)
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• Women with very recent access to the Internet tend to use it for recreational purposes such as gaming, music listening, and movie downloads, while “women with more than five years of online experience are twice as likely to seek out information on financial services and banking, or related to their source of income, than women who have joined the Internet within the last year.” (Intel, 2013, p. 5)
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• Women with very recent access to the Internet tend to use it for recreational purposes such as gaming, music listening, and movie downloads, while “women with more than five years of online experience are twice as likely to seek out information on financial services and banking, or related to their source of income, than women who have joined the Internet within the last year.” (Intel, 2013, p. 5)
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Target population
• Physical access – Middle-class; at least 5 years experience with ICT
and the Internet
• Intellectual access – Postgraduate credentials; gainfully employed; high
levels of English proficiency
• Social access – Middle-class, married, nuclear or extended family
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“Middle class” in India
• “typically own a television, a refrigerator, a mobile phone and perhaps even a scooter or a car. Although their budgets are stretched, they scrimp and save for their children's education and their own retirement” (Farrell & Beinhocker, 2007)
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“Upper middle class” in India
• “tend to be senior government officials, managers of large businesses, professionals and rich farmers. They are highly brand-conscious, buying the latest foreign-made cars and electronic gadgets. They are likely to have air conditioning, and can indulge in an annual vacation, usually somewhere in India”(Farrell & Beinhocker, 2007)
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Semi-structured interviews
• Word of mouth and snowball sampling • Face-to-face • 1 hour • Follow up by telephone • Nvivo 10
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Research Questions
• How are these women adopting ICT in their daily lives?
• What role does ICT play in the women’s everyday lives?
• Why do these women use ICT?
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1. Tell me something
about your family
background? Your
professional
background?
• Introductory questions, family status, education level, literacy and digital literacy information, family make-up
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2. What is your schedule
on a typical day? How
much of your time is
spent in professional
tasks and how much
personal?
• Introductory discussion, personal background
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3. When was the last
time you remember
you needed some
information, what was
it? How did you go
about finding the
information?
• Probing about information seeking behaviour. Is there ICT use in information seeking process? If not mentioned, probe further with question 4.
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4a. If ICT mentioned,
– Do you usually go about
your search needs in the
same order as in this
particular case?
– If yes, can you share
another instance?
– If no, can you describe
another way you use ICT
to seek information?
• Probing about information seeking behaviour and information seeking behaviour using ICT
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4b. If ICT not mentioned
spontaneously,
– When do you use ICT, for
what purpose is it used?
• Probing about information seeking behaviour and information seeking behaviour using ICT
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5. Which ICT device/s do
you frequently use?
What makes one
device preferable over
another one?
• Factors contributing to the use of ICT
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6. What is your impression
of ICT? Do you think of
it has been useful for
your purposes? Is it
comfortable for you to
use ICT? On a scale of 1
to 10, how would you
rate your expertise with
ICT?
• Factors contributing to the use of ICT
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7. Can you imagine living
your life without ICT?
What significance does
ICT hold in your life?
• Importance of ICT in daily life and comfort level with ICT
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• Multiple ICT devices owned and used (and unused)
• Physical access shortcomings were common worldwide rather than infrastructure or economy-based
• Varying levels of interest and use (as expected)
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When a middle class, well educated woman has technology at her fingertips, what are factors that encourage or discourage use
in her everyday life?
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Digital literacy factors
• Gained experience through – Gaming – Searching for information about hobbies – Personal needs and entertainment – Helping their children with school assignments – Asking questions of more experienced colleagues – Troubleshooting their own gadgets – Helping their husbands, other family members,
friends
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Digital literacy factors
• Training specific to ICT – “I am not at all technology savvy, I am not at all”
(Hiya)
• Independent of actual use – Hiya uses ICT throughout the day for social media
and to help her daughter with schoolwork
• Self-identified rather than objectively assessed – Farha, IT professional, prefers to let her husband
do online searching as she said she thinks he does better searches than her
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Professional factors
• The women who used ICT more often in their professional lives were more confident in their digital literacy skills.
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Everyday life factors
• Gaming (early use) • Leisure activities and
hobbies • Online shopping and
reviews • News • Finding contacts • Reservations, travel
• GPS • Photography • Online banking • Health information • Recipes • Social media
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Social networking factors
• Relationships begun offline maintained through social media
• Women who otherwise felt uninterested in ICT used it regularly for social connective purposes
• Social networks were used to avoid ICT use as well (e.g., gatekeepers, Chatman, 1987; Metoyer-Duran, 1993)
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Time factors
• Those who had “a lot of time” used ICT more • Those who had less leisure time used it less,
unless using to help their children or other family members
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Privacy and security factors
• Strangers • Information security • Everyone knowing where you are; being
reachable 24/7
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So what?
• Digital inclusion is more complex than access to devices and strong internet connections -- it is about fair opportunity.
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So what?
• Countries have taken great strides in providing infrastructures for physical access to digital technologies needed for information access and use
• Simple physical access to digital technology does not automatically produce a state of digital inclusion (e.g., Warschauer 2003)
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