This is the fourth edition of the Dual Digital Divide series of reports. It builds on the findings from the first three studies utilizing an integrated quantitative and qualitative approach to exploring key trends.
This report updates an analysis of the "digital divide" in Canada. The study tracks updates on general access levels and sub-groups that are least likely to be connected to the Internet; provides an overview of changes in access and digital divide levels over the past three years, and; discusses emerging social policy and governance issues relating to the Internet and the digital divide.
This study analyses the state of the "digital divide" in Canada as of the year 2000; how the divide has changed since 1997, and; why many Canadians remain unconnected to the Internet.