IRP questions

My IRP topic is global digital divide in India, which focuses on accessibility of the Internet. Before writing my question, I would like to mention about the definition of “Global digital divide”. According to the background reading(link), it is distinguishable from “digital divide”, which means the gap of accessibility to information due to the coverage of IT infrastructure between urban and rural (originally in the US). In contrast, “global digital divide” means the gap between developed country(s) and developing country(s). My consideration about the situation in India is, In spite of being one of IT advanced countries in the world, that there are huge gap between people caused from several inequalities of education, income and social status. My questions in this research are; how the situation is complicated in this country, can it be an effective solution advancing the Internet accessibility in this county and can it upgrade the IT status of this county against the world. So I will deal with both aspects of “Global digital divide” and “digital divide (in India)” in this research.

For this research, the “Communication & Mass Media Complete” database is one of the useful databases, because the concept is the most suitable for this theme. I found a journal “Bridging digital divide: Efforts in India” from this database. So far, it is the best one which seems to answer to my question.

A difficulty of finding reference in my case is, because the digital divide is already a common problem in many countries in the world, there are a lot of resources in the database. I have to eliminate the resource carefully and should choose the latest ones as possible, because in the ever-changing IT situations, the values of the sources would fade as time goes by.