Are Borders Behind? Computer Technology Benchmarking on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Abstract

The issue of computer and related technology use has become an indicator of quality of life and economic well-being. To better understand how policies should be developed to meet the needs of computer related technology, communities must develop some baseline measures. In the border region of the United States and Mexico, benchmarking is extremely important inasmuch as the digital divide is believed to be significant. This study provides a computer related technology baseline and examines through multivariate approaches how their use can be measured and how previous studies that have concluded some ethnic groups lag in computer related technology use does not hold true in the border region