Income-related digital divide across the European Union

Abstract

Given the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in almost every aspect of peoples’ lives, it became crucial to understand how far the digital gaps go. This paper confronts this issue, most known as the digital divide, addressing the role of a society income-level in the digital disparities existing between and within countries of the European Union, thus allowing the analysis of both internal and external digital divides. We finalize our analysis grouping different income-level individuals belonging to the European Union member states to better assess their similarities and differences in terms of ICT access and use so that distinctive digital profiles can be classified.