The objective of this paper is to report on information and communication technology access, use, and perceptions as a means for health promotion to support treatment adherence and HIV transmission risk reduction among people living with HIV in Peru.
Although there remains a "digital divide" with patchy provision of information communication technology access globally, rapid advances in mobile telephone and wireless technology, and its increasing availability in otherwise resource-limited settings, are improving this situation.
A self-reported questionnaire regarding information and communication technology (ICT) access and ICT competency, Scale of Digital Participation of Elementary School Students, designed by the authors, was used to collect data.
With recent advances in computing and communication technologies, ubiquitous access to high quality multimedia content such as high definition video using smartphones, netbooks, or tablets is a fact of our daily life.
With the rapid growth of computer and communication technology, users have access to information easier.
28 29 Such research also highlights the various strategies for facilitating knowledge sharing, such as 'knowledge brokers' who can translate and transfer knowledge between isolated groups, information and communication technology to provide easy access and retrieval to knowledge and 'communities of practice' that engender cultural and organisational alignment through knowledge sharing.
The long-standing gap in information access and communication technology between different socio-economic groups is often referred to as the 'digital divide'.
Rao and Baer [40] and Rao and Min [7] argue that "decent" standards of living should include considerations beyond mere subsistence needs such as access to communication technology and refrigeration as well as education and health services, implying the need for infrastructure build-out in developing nations.
In Southwest China, a high percentage of ethnic minority communities often live in isolated areas, are poor with limited income and low levels of economic development, and exhibit a lack of infrastructure as well as limited access to communication technology (Shan 2010).
Multi-carrier and multiple access communication technologies like orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) have captured different vistas of communications not only for simple text data but also for different types of multimedia requiring robust transmissions.
The rapidly expanding market for wearable computing devices (wearables), driven by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), wireless access, and public acceptance of a design aesthetic, is indicative of the near limitless potential for changing the relationship of users to information context(s).
