For customers who can't afford a PC, Telmex has set up PC-equipped community internet centers in Mexican schools.
The study then used the Community Technology Centers (CTCs) intervention approach to narrowing the digital divide by setting up a CTC in the Mathare Slum to offer free community internet access and digital literacy skills training.
Household income quartile as well as urban versus rural community internet access are factors influencing internet use [ 27].
Potential participants were recruited via local newspaper advertisements, flyers and community internet resources and underwent initial telephone screening to assess eligibility criteria.
Comparisons of internet surveys with other modes of survey administration have generally used conventional mail for initial contact, and a common finding has been that response rates to community internet surveys are lower than for postal surveys [ 8- 10].
Excluded from these analyses were papers that involved community care, psycho-educational interventions in the community, internet interventions, health maintenance organisations, stand alone self help, or one of the trials where more than one contrast or subgroup was included.
For example, a community internet health survey with one mail and one telephone follow up contact following a mailed invitation, obtained a response rate of 50.6%, but the parallel postal survey arm yielded a response rate of 64.4% [ 13].
YouTubing is very hip, very community-Internet, but it raises some difficult questions.
When directing questions to a large community, internet-based surveys appear to be valuable tools.
Of course, online resources are useful only to communities with Internet access.
