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Mobile Oportunities: Poverty and Access to Telephony in Latin America and the Caribbean. The case of Trinidad and Tobago

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dc.creator Mallalieu, Kim
dc.creator Cambridge, Innette
dc.date 2022-10-05T16:22:38Z
dc.date 2022-10-05T16:22:38Z
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-17T15:23:30Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-17T15:23:30Z
dc.identifier https://repositorio.iep.org.pe/handle/IEP/1236
dc.identifier.uri https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/200349
dc.description Este trabajo se llevó a cabo con la ayuda de una subvención del Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, Ottawa, Canadá
dc.description This country report explores telephony usage in poor communities in Trinidad and Tobago. It follows a number of similar studies covering Africa (Waverman, Meschi and Fuss 2005), India (Sharma 2007) and Latin America (Frost and Sullivan 2006). Supporting documents to the current study include a background paper on mobile technologies and services (Mallalieu, 2006) and a literature review of poverty in Trinidad and Tobago (Cambridge, Foster and Mallalieu, unpublished). It is part of a larger Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) mobile opportunities study which covers Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Columbia and Argentina. The multi-country research was supported by the International Development Research Center, IDRC, of Canada. A quantitative survey of low-income communities in Trinidad and Tobago, was used as the basis for the country study. The sample of 537 respondents out of a total country population of 1,262,366, was selected using information from local studies which estimate that 17% of the population is poor (Kairi Consultants, 2007). The study is motivated by an interest in identifying possible ways of empowering the poor in Trinidad and Tobago through telecommunications. To this end, it analyses the access and barriers to communications services among the poor as well as their use and perceptions of such services. Although the study examines patterns of use for fixed lines, mobile and the Internet, it focuses primarily on mobile as this technology reportedly has high levels of penetration among the poor in developing countries and has considerable potential as a vehicle for inclusion.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.5/pe/
dc.source Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
dc.source Repositorio institucional - IEP
dc.subject Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación
dc.subject Telefonía Celular
dc.subject Pobreza
dc.subject Barreras de acceso
dc.subject Trinidad y Tobago
dc.title Mobile Oportunities: Poverty and Access to Telephony in Latin America and the Caribbean. The case of Trinidad and Tobago
dc.type Working Paper


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