Community-Level Access Divides
| Autor: | Carleen Maitland, Brian Tomaszewski, Ying Xu, Daniel Iland, Paul Schmitt, Elizabeth Belding |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Syrian refugees
Community level business.industry Refugee 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 020206 networking & telecommunications Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Network congestion 0508 media and communications Geography 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Physical access Cellular network Economic geography Telecommunications business Bandwidth availability |
| Zdroj: | ICTD |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2909609.2909668 |
| Popis: | Despite the appearance of uniform availability of mobile services, in many locales granular network analyses reveal the persistence of physical access divides. It stands to reason these divides, similar to those at larger scales, are also reflections of community-level social and economic divides. In this research, we examine community-level physical access divides in the context of a Syrian refugee camp. The investigation combines detailed network and organizational analyses to characterize the divides and identify factors influencing their creation and potential solutions. Our findings show that even in the limited confines of a refugee camp, coverage patterns and bandwidth availability differ significantly both within and between the networks of three mobile cellular carriers. These patterns, together with the overall configuration of network infrastructure, demonstrate three community level divides: an inter-carrier congestion divide, a spatial distribution divide, and an inter-network divide. We identify a number of linkages between these divides and the social, organizational and humanitarian context of the camp. Building on these analyses, we provide recommendations to ameliorate these divides for both residents and camp management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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