Mobile Broadband Affordability and the Global Digital Divide -- An Information Ethics Perspective

Access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is becoming a necessity not only for communication, but for commerce, and for obtaining information about healthcare, employment, and education. Unfortunately, the global digital divide has deepened to include limits on access to mobile broadband services. This paper uses an information ethics (IE) perspective, based the work of Floridi, which builds on previous ethics work by Rawls and...