Access and Utilization of Digital Infrastructure for Efficiency: A Comparative Study of Migrated and Local Stakeholders of Higher Educational Institutes of Odisha

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10.2991/ahsseh.k.220105.005How to use a DOI?

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Digital infrastructure; efficiency; In-migrants; Local individuals; Access and Utilization

Abstract

Countries across globe are going digital as digital mode of doing things bypasses many constraints that are prevalent otherwise. Moreover, digital set up facilitates achieving efficiency easily. Thus, most of the countries have been focusing on digital infrastructure. India has joined the trend of late and the usage of digital infrastructure like internet, mobile networks, apps, IoT, etc. in the country has gone up very fast. However, the access of such infrastructure is not uniform across the country. All sections of the country are not at par concerning utilization of digital infrastructure, as proper utilization of such infrastructure depends on need, know-how and mind-set of the users. As such, one section is very much different from another with regard to its motivation, ability and mentality. Moreover, in a particular section of the society, there are in-migrant individuals and local individuals. Thus, the objectives of this paper are; i) to find out the extent of access and utilization of digital infrastructure among the in-migrant and local stakeholders of higher educational institutes (HEIs), and ii) to ascertain whether there is any difference between these two sets of individuals in achieving efficiency through utilization of available digital infrastructure. For this purpose, on the basis of convenient sampling, ‘Gajapati’ district of the state of Odisha (India) has been considered. Referral sampling has been followed to select 125 stakeholders as sample units from HEIs of Gajapati district of Odisha. Statistical techniques used for the purpose are ANOVA and Regression Coefficients.

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AU  - Sanjaya Kumar Sahoo
AU  - Sukanta Chandra Swain
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/18
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability and Equity (ICSE-2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2667-128X
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