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Table 18
Hindrances on the use and availability of ICTs in rural South Africa N= 200 and in Kenya N=200
Impeding factors
h ICT services are unaffordabie
Time
leT services are tar away
Computer illiteracy
Roads are poor
Cultural Taboos
SA
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SA
%
Kenya Kenya
113 565 64 320
93 465 27 13.5
82 41.0 38 19.0
42 21.0 32 16.0
25 12,5 16 80
15 75 23 11.5
7.8 Hindrances facing the use and availability of leTs in the rural
areas rural areas of RVP (Kenya).
In the table above, respondents were asked questions relating to leT
hindrances. Using a close-ended questionnaire, appropriate multiple answers
were selected. Evidently, 64 (32.0%) respondents in RVP (Kenya) expressed
problems ranging from cost, to distance (38, 19%) and time (27; 13.5%).
Other pressing problems include computer illiteracy (32; 16.0%), cultural
taboos (23; 11.5%) and poor road networks (16; 8.0%).
Notably, survey results indicate that problems of access and exclusion also
abound in RVP (Kenya), as an average of 43 (21.5%) respondents face
problems that range from cost, to time and distance.
The P-Value for hindrances facing the use and availability of lCTs in the
rural areas of Kenya reveals that the:
19"'7
%